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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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Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It…
— George Orwell
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Think of a field of daisies: they bloom, they wither, and in the spring they grow again. Who wants to see the…
— Rudy Rucker
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Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against…
— William Cowper
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It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Very softly, but very swiftly, Last, the man with the grey face and the staring eyes, bolted for his life, down and…
— Arthur Machen
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Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment,…
— William Shakespeare
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Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.
— Johann Lamont
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From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Of course, sweetie," his mom said. "We'll be here all day. You just come down whenever you want and we love you…
— John Green
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The first building she reached appeared to be an old barn. Only one young guard stood before its bolted door, staring at…
— Shannon Hale
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