Pico Iyer is a British-born essayist and novelist of Indian descent.
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“In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished”
Pico Iyer
“For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.”
“American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.”