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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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Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
— Tom Robbins
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If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words…
— Archibald MacLeish
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Knowing how to use your voice so it makes sense to your dog, using words in a way your dog can understand,…
— Unknown Author
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I…
— Bertrand Russell
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A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a…
— Cecil Day-Lewis
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement,…
— Yehuda Berg
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There's no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and…
— Paulo Coelho
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I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential…
— John Breaux
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I believe in using words, not fists.
— Susan Sarandon
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Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true…
— Paul Brunton
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I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going…
— Theodore Sturgeon
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