science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
YANN MARTELI explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
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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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Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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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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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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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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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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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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There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story?
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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others – and I am one of those – never give up. We fight and fight and fight.
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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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