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Makes Quotes by Yann Martel
- If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel…
- 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…
- So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which…
- Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
- I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I…
- Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine