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Pico Iyer

"For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you canâ€™t quite speak the language, and you donâ€™t know where youâ€™re going, and youâ€™re pulled ever deeper into the inviting darkness, every trip to a foreign country can be a love affair, where youâ€™re left puzzling over who you are and whom youâ€™ve fallen in love with."

Source : "Oh to Wanderfly (and How It’ll Help You Travel)" by Jason Silva, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2010.

Pico Iyer

#Country Quotes #Journey Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.”
“I am sad, like the hot dust on the streets And the music of fresh fallen leaves Caught in a sliding summer breeze.”
“I like actors who don't have to think too hard about what they have to do to achieve their performance.”
“Margaret Thatcher was beyond argument a great Prime Minister. Her tragedy is that she may be remembered less for the brilliance of her many achievements than for the recklessness with which she later sought to impose her own increasingly uncompromising views.”
“I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.”
“It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them.”
“Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise.”
“... I just feel impotent - I don't know which way to start or turn. You know what they say about a prophet in one's own country - well - in a way it works for me too: you see - this might be called my home town - well of all the old friends and acquaintances not one takes me seriously as a photographer - not one has asked me to show my work... (On returning to San Francisco)”

Source : Tina Modotti, Amy Rule (1986). “The Letters from Tina Modotti to Edward Weston”

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