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About Pico Iyer
English-born essayist and novelist
Pico Iyer is an English-born essayist and novelist known chiefly for his travel writing. He is best known for books about crossing cultures and for essays shaped by life between places. His work includes Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, and The Global Soul. He has also written for Time, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times, and his writing often returns to travel, identity, and cultural exchange.
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- “Japan functions on the basis of everyone sharing certain assumptions, where each person knows his part in a l…”Pico Iyer
- “Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.”Pico Iyer
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- “Movement is a fantastic privilege... but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.”Pico Iyer
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- “Live every day in the full expression of God’s grace in this coming year.”Lailah Gifty Akita
- “I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - bu…”Nancy Kerrigan
- “I love Halloween. I love Thanksgiving. I love Christmas. I love New Year's.”Madelaine Petsch
Travel: more sayings
- “Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with f…”Leon Edel
- “Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All othe…”John Muir
- “Turn it beautiful. His words came faintly at first, but they came again and again, always softly, always with…”A.S. Peterson
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Books by Pico Iyer
The Open Road
2008
The Global Soul
2000
A Beginner's Guide to Japan
2019
Sun After Dark
2004
Cuba and the Night
1995