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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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I don't wanna be shaped like a girl. I love being shaped like a woman, and trust me ladies, your man won't…
— Miley Cyrus
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He is purple - the gay-pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle - the gay pride symbol.
— Jerry Falwell
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Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw…
— Xenophanes
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There's a reason every book, even one that isn't very serious, is shaped like a suitcase
— Sergei Dovlatov
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Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown…
— Stuart Dybek
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Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands…
— Haruki Murakami
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A thousand trees are seen towards heaven rising, With beautiful and sweetly-scented apples; The orange, wearing on its lovely fruit The colour…
— Luis de Camoes
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Did you ever notice that America is shaped like one big, giant toilet bowl?
— Bret Hart
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There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded…
— Michael Ende
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Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley…
— Dave Eggers
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Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let…
— Virginia Woolf
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A Vampire!" I stammered. Then I noticed her legs. Below the cheerleader skirt, her left leg was brown and shaggy with a…
— Rick Riordan
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