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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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Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a…
— Dick Gregory
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There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.
— Bob Cousy
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While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do.…
— Barack Obama
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I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes, higher inflation…
— Charley Reese
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If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and…
— William Allen White
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Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots…
— Richey Edwards
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If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did…
— Maxine Waters
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I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth,…
— Jack Kerouac
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To wipe off the froth of falsehood from the foaming lips of inebriated virtue, when fresh from the sexless orgies of morality…
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
— Richard M. Nixon
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My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know … I don’t really want to get into it,…
— Chris Rock
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When I worked with Robin Williams, now there is improv! He is just as funny as you think he is. We did…
— Stephen Root
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