I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
YANN MARTELI chose the name Pi because it’s an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a “rational” understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, “irrational” yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches.
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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
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It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I’ve made none the champion.
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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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You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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We think we live in a global village. We don’t. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
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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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You can get used to anything – haven’t I already said that? Isn’t that what all survivors say?
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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story?
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Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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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!
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