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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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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
— Arthur Ashe
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
— Saint Augustine
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
— Teresa of Avila
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We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.
— John O. Brennan
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
— Samuel Butler
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Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to…
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer,…
— Florence Nightingale
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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
— Robert Browning
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Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.
— William Shakespeare
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I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff it, shank…
— Cary Middlecoff
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A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.
— Confucius
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Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.
— Luigi Pirandello
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