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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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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an…
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The fact is, unlike a lot of writers, I credit the people who help me. A lot of writers out there have…
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It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and…
— J. William Fulbright
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Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause…
— W L George
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Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered,…
— Charles Babbage
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It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a…
— Margaret Oliphant
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Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
— Maxim Gorky
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Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone; yet he is no more to be…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If every UFO report could be convincingly credited to some conventional astronomical or atmospheric phenomenon, there would be no UFO mystery. It…
— Don Berliner
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I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It…
— Jay Gould
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Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a…
— Eliza Farnham
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The New York Times credited me with the rediscovery and revival of red velvet cake. I consider this as one of my…
— Robert Harling
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