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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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A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. Thats basic spelling that every woman ought to know.
— Unknown Author
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Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
— Bill Bryson
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As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book…
— Mark Twain
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Blaming guns for killing people is like blaming pencils for bad spelling
— Larry the Cable Guy
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I see that you have made three spelling mistakes.
— Unknown Author
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My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French…
— Mark Twain
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I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to…
— Albert Einstein
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I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like…
— Ashley Scott
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Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was…
— Alyssa Milano
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Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, `You should never trust a…
— Dan Quayle
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