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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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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for…
— Honore de Balzac
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The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings…
— Libba Bray
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If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less…
— Greg Boyle
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Friends are all souls that we've known in other lives. We're drawn to each other. Even if I have only known them…
— George Harrison
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Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?
— Henry Travers
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Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different…
— Etgar Keret
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There have been meetings of only a moment which have left impressions for life ...for eternity. No one can understand that mysterious…
— Jean Baker Miller
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The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of…
— C.S. Lewis
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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.…
— Yann Martel
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I can also be very happy in this life, but it's usually happiness that I get from other lives I've lived and…
— John Frusciante
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Other heights in other lives, God willing.
— Robert Browning
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Your life will become better by making other lives better.
— Will Smith
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