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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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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite,…
— William Blake
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I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for…
— Andrew Ford
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Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.
— Unknown Author
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The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was…
— John Harvey Kellogg
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I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest…
— Abel Hermant
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Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.
— H. L. Mencken
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The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
— Charles P. Kindleberger
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Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because…
— Samuel Johnson
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There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships…
— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
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There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He…
— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
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