Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.
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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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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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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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He’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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We think we live in a global village. We don’t. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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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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You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you’ve defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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