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  • Yann Martel Quote - Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
  • Yann Martel Quote - Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
  • Yann Martel Quote - Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
  • Yann Martel Quote - Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
  • Yann Martel Quote - Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
  • Yann Martel Quote - Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.

Yann Martel

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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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    Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.

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    I ask you, is it the fig tree’s fault that it’s not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?

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    I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he’s not careful.

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