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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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It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.
— Muhammad Ali
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For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
— Clifton Fadiman
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I believe that Manila can be a reflection of your state of mind. Being a city of extreme contrasts it's easy to…
— Carlos Celdran
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Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali poured scorn on…
— Muhammad Ali
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You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca,…
— Miguel Syjuco
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You are all so lucky to be living here. If I live in Manila I would definitely live in Azure.
— Paris Hilton
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And don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in…
— Lady Gaga
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My art school rejection letter arrived as a cold manila fist that closed around my fragile hopes ... The fear was practically…
— Grant Morrison
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Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila…
— Jack Newfield
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All the fabulous and fearless writers gathered here, whether they are living in Manila, the US, or elsewhere in the ever-growing Philippine…
— Jessica Hagedorn
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The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and…
— Imelda Marcos
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Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi…
— Yann Martel
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