I can’t live for more than four years outside of Canada. I’m Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
YANN MARTELReligion is just an alternate way of reading reality – you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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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, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.
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In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have.
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The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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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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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.
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It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
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science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
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My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
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