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Yann Martel has 214 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would…
— Ole Hallesby
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To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in…
— Michel Foucault
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I looked at Mum and realized -- twang! -- that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking…
— Christopher Buckley
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Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter…
— Salvatore Quasimodo
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Well, PZ Myers, Jen McCreight, Phil Plait, Amanda Marcotte, Greg Laden, Melissa McEwan and others have all already said it, but I…
— Unknown Author
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Sometimes you have to hold tight to what God has already said because you can get so clouded over emotionally that you…
— Beth Moore
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No one could ever hate me as much as I hate myself, okay? So any mean thing someone's gonna think of to…
— Hannah
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The idea for each of the stories in this book came in a moment of belief and was written in a burst…
— Stephen King
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When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already…
— Sampha
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To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in…
— Ariel Sharon
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Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the…
— William Goldman
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