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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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Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances.
— James Broughton
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were…
— Aaron Huey
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The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than…
— Julia Cameron
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He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a…
— Sam Manekshaw
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Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
— A. E. Housman
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For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the…
— Samuel Johnson
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