I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
YANN MARTELI went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn’t have the stomach to use the sharp edge).
More Yann Martel Quotes
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We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it’s true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
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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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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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To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing–I’m sorry, I would rather not go on.
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I’m not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don’t have a mobile. I just don’t need things. I don’t like things.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that’s why we should change it. I didn’t say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
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The dorado did the most extraordinary thing as it died: it began to flash all kinds of colours in rapid succession. Blue, green, red, gold, and violet flickered and shimmered neon-like on its surface as it struggled. I felt I was beating a rainbow to death.
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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I can’t live for more than four years outside of Canada. I’m Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
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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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