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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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There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the…
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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By Heaven, my soul is purg'd from grudging hate; And with my hand I seal my true heart's love
— William Shakespeare
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Last year the [harp seal] pup mortality rate was 100 percent in parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
— Brian Skerry
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The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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Park hill staten island seal, rock the reel to reel we high hills deep
— Cappadonna
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O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!
— William Shakespeare
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When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the…
— Thurgood Marshall
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What I have taught with my lips I now seal with my blood.
— Jan Hus
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I do realise that when I laugh, it sounds like a seal is being molested.
— Jimmy Carr
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I don't want to be buried in the ground, rotting, with all those worms. What I would love is to have my…
— Jean-Claude Van Damme
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The penguin doesn't know it's cute, and the leopard seal doesn't know it's kind of big and monstrous. This is just the…
— Paul Nicklen
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Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world?
— Margo Lanagan
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