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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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This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra. The Americans…
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One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.
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After the briskness of loving, loving stops. And you roll over with death stretched out alongside you like a feather boa, or…
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As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and…
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I don't get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
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It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.
— George Stevens
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This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra… Now even…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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It (Hinduism) is like the boa constrictor of the Indian forests. When a petty enemy appears to worry it, it winds round…
— Unknown Author
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When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician --…
— Neil Gaiman
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I have been wearing black, which was a reaction to the Ginger thing. But now I have hopes and I can be…
— Geri Halliwell
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