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Great Quotes by Yann Martel
- A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
- When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
- I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.
- Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great…
- Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the…
- I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said "I will…
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- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong