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.
YANN MARTELSitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that’s why we should change it. I didn’t say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal – of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds of Tanzania – but a good zoo is a decent, acceptable place.
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There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul.
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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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I’m not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don’t have a mobile. I just don’t need things. I don’t like things.
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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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My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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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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We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that’s why we should change it. I didn’t say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
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