I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.
YANN MARTELIn a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don’t, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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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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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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The dorado did the most extraordinary thing as it died: it began to flash all kinds of colours in rapid succession. Blue, green, red, gold, and violet flickered and shimmered neon-like on its surface as it struggled. I felt I was beating a rainbow to death.
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I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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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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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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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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I would have like PI to be a Jew, too, to practice Judaism, but there are two religions that are explicitly incompatible: Christianity and Judaism. Where one begins, the other ends, according to Christians, and where one endures, the other strays, according to Jews.
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Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster.
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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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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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