If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making y…

Yann Martel
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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. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins. ✨ Yann Martel: 'Jewish people don't own the Holocaust' by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2010.
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Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got! ✨ Yann Martel (2015). Life of Pi - CANCELED, p.187, … ▶

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