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I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot, and every trip to the movies would be an event.
I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot, and every trip to the movies would be an event.
Approximate author period: c. 1957 AD · modern
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- Pico Iyer
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- Approximate author period: c. 1957 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Pico Iyer: documented birth year 1957; activity date not established. Wikidata Q2955951, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2955951 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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