#ch

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion. ↗

— Yann Martel

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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it? ↗

— Yann Martel

#dances #each #every #i #i write

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction. ↗

— Yann Martel

#fiction #how #imagination #interpret #interpretation

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them. ↗

— Jose Marti

#despite #down #fair #hills #hinder

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself. ↗

— Jose Marti

#cannot #child #himself #honest #honesty

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness. ↗

— Jose Marti

#deeds #dignity #evaporate #famous #few

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. ↗

— Jose Marti

#judge #liberty #loud #only #perhaps

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour. ↗

— Jose Marti

#bring #charity #denied #did #door

Charm is a product of the unexpected. ↗

— Jose Marti

#product #unexpected

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. ↗

— Jose Marti

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