Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
YANN MARTELIt was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers.
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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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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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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality – you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.
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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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The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it’s like to be a woman doesn’t strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.
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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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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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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
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