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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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If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Eighty-two percent of Australia's bird species and two thirds of Australia's mammal species can be found on our (Australian Wildlife Conservancy) reserves.…
— Kristy Hinze
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We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and…
— Yasmine Galenorn
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We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate…
— John Zerzan
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Words at night were feral things.
— Joy Williams
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Throughout your career people will try to distract you. Some will scream at you, others will say things behind your back, and…
— Sharyn Alfonsi
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To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door,…
— Maureen Corrigan
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I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I…
— Olivia Colman
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I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.
— Robbie Coltraine
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Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my…
— Florence Welch
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She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not…
— Thomas Pynchon
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The word "feral" has a kind of magic potency which allied itself to two other words, "ferocious" and "free." To revert to…
— T.H. White
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