Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
YANN MARTELCome 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.
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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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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
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For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.
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We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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That’s what fiction is about, isn’t it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they’re all we have.
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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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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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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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I was giving up. I would have given up – if a voice hadn’t made itself heard in my heart. The voice said “I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare.
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I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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