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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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It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.
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It's with a heavy heart that I have decided that I can't relocate. I have two babies under 4. being a mother…
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If you've been here 15 years and you've got three kids and grandkids and you've been paying taxes and obeying the law,…
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I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do…
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No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth.
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At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems…
— Timothy Keller
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Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive…
— Orison Swett Marden
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For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence…
— Martin Buber
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Mine, said the stone,mine is the hour.I crush the scissors,such is my power.Stronger than wishes,my power, alone.Mine, said the paper,mine are the…
— David Mason
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I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people…
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If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall…
— Teresa of Avila
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