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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 hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to see the pimple on someone's…
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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
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Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance…
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Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that is, that…
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We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a…
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I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.
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A child isn’t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let’s just…
— Hiromi
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To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.
— Emile M. Cioran
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The undressed is vulgar; the nude is pure, and the well-dressed tainted.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault.…
— P.D. James
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The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or…
— Sylvia Plath
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When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained…
— Alice Hamilton
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