All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
YANN MARTELWe commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God… These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.
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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they’re all we have.
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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 dreams?
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I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it’s sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It’s a very laborious process, but I love doing it.
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The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice three.
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We don’t want any invention. We want the ‘straight facts,’ as you say in English.” Isn’t telling about something–using words, English or Japanese–already something of an invention? Isn’t just looking upon this world already something of an invention?
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You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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