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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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Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
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We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden…
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All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to…
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save,…
— Cato the Younger
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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Congo Free State is unique in its kind. It has nothing to hide and no secrets and is not beholden to…
— Unknown Author
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Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious…
— Joan D. Chittister
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The very act of committing an experience to the page is necessarily an act of reduction, and regardless of craft or skill,…
— Bret Anthony Johnston
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The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but…
— Harold H. Greene
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The galaxy is full of creatures that are nothing like us at all. We can try to understand them, and we should.…
— John Jackson Miller
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We are rare and precious because we are alive, because we can think as well as we can. We are privileged to…
— Carl Sagan
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Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.
— Francis Bacon
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