If you don’t have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
YANN MARTELI cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl’s kiss on your cheek.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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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 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.
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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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I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
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Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.
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We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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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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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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