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Pico Iyer Quotes

I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: indian
Birth: February 11, 1957

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Birthday Fire School Language I Can

In many regions, war and terror prevail. States disintegrate. For many years, we have read about this. We have heard about it. We have seen it on TV. But we had not yet sufficiently understood that what happens in Aleppo and Mosul can affect Essen or Stuttgart. We have to face that now.

War Face Now Years Prevail Affect

I'm 47 years old. I couldn't compete with Beyonce. I'm not competing with anyone. I've already established myself as an artist. I've been in this business for 30 years. There's no reason for me to compete with anyone.

Stephanie Mills

Business Myself Me Artist Reason

I just want to become the best player I can be.

Best I Can Want Become Just Player

The answers to feeding hungry children is not fewer dollars to feed hungry children, it's to do more. It is to raise the minimum wage. It is to increase, not dismantle, the earned income tax credit. It is to make college more affordable for more middle class families, not more expensive. These are the things that grow our middle class.

Martin O'Malley

Children College Grow Credit Tax

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

Parents Smoking Up Both Chronic Had

It's incredibly moving to hear some of our greatest actors performing Shakespeare.

Moving Greatest Performing Hear Some

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

God Devil Never Terrible Just Knows

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

Mother Money Day Woman Night Enough

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

Poetry Language Still Resilient Goes

Big ups to him, big ups to Future. I actually like Future's music. I like his music, you feel me. I'm not a hater or a critic on him, you know, I do me. God bless him, God bless me.

Future Music God Me Feel You

'The Apprentice' has been excellent for my dad. Before, there was always that kind of corporate, Napoleonic evilness to Donald Trump. Now people see him interacting with normal - barely normal - individuals, and it's like, 'Wait a second. He's a regular guy!'

Donald Trump, Jr.

People Wait Donald Trump Now Kind

I used to go to Saks, I would go to Bergdorf, I would go to Barneys, I would go to thrift stores in SoHo.

Go Thrift Used Would Stores

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