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Have you ever stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai? I'd warmly recommend it. It's super luxurious, and right next door, there's a classic slum. So you can do a quick slum tour and get back to your sanctuary without any inconvenience but with some excellent snaps.

~Geoff Dyer

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If you're not religious, like me, how do you explain the transformational power that certain places have? They bring an incredible degree of attention to where you are and the passage of time. You're looking at every flower twitching, wondering if it's just the breeze or some magical pulse.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Attention Breeze Bring Certain Degree Every Explain Flower How Incredible Just Like Looking Magical Me Passage Places Power Pulse Religious Some Time Where Wondering You

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When I'm writing, quite often I start having a good time when I see there's a chance to make myself look like a real jerk. I start chuckling and having an interesting, rather than a boring, time.

~Geoff Dyer

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There are the tears of rage when books get praised when they're so obviously garbage. But then there are so many more that continue to move me: the end of 'Paradise Lost,' 'The Ruined Cottage' by Wordsworth, Prospero's 'Our revels now are ended' speech near the end of 'The Tempest.'

~Geoff Dyer

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I love festivals, period.

~Geoff Dyer

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I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay put because my dad just hated going on holidays, because, as I've said in many essays, the thing that he hated more than anything else in life was spending money. And as soon as you leave your home, you're spending money.

~Geoff Dyer

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Contrary to popular belief, Oxford has the highest concentration of dull-witted, stupid, narrow-minded people anywhere in the British Isles.

~Geoff Dyer

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For me, those little cinemas in Paris where I saw many art films for the first time meant that cinema became a kind of pilgrimage site.

~Geoff Dyer

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It's one of these things that I've been struck by for so long about America. You know, this amazing politeness of American life that's not at all class specific. It's not like people get more polite as ascend the hierarchy of society. Just incredible good manners. It's always been something that I've noticed.

~Geoff Dyer

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I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be close to home.

~Geoff Dyer

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: June 5th, 1958

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