Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it’s a sad view.
YANN MARTELHe’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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He’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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You can get used to anything – haven’t I already said that? Isn’t that what all survivors say?
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And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights and all the moons. To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle.
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Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers.
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he’s not careful.
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I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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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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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.
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Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.
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I can’t live for more than four years outside of Canada. I’m Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
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