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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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Whoop it up for liberty! After Ireland is free, says the patriot who won't touch socialism, we will protect all classes, and…
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If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and…
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I don't really deal with the attention I receive to be honest. I build up a fantasy world around me that I…
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A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is…
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I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We…
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I had some pretty lucky and good living situations; thankfully I never got forced out of an apartment. A lot of my…
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