"In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe."
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Pico Iyer, an eloquent blend of travel writer, essayist, and cultural commentator, was born on February 26, 1957, in Oxford, England. With a rich heritage as the son of Indian parents who later moved to the United States, Iyer's literary journey traverses the intersections of East and West. His poignant reflections on solitude, spirituality, and the essence of place have resonated with readers worldwide. Through works such as "The Art of Stillness," Iyer has left an indelible mark, urging us to find profound meaning in our increasingly chaotic lives.
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"If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals."
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"American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams."
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"Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself."
Pico Iyer"I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness."
Pico Iyer"Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before."
Pico Iyer"For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, 'Where's your home?' I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be."
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