I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl’s kiss on your cheek.
YANN MARTELDare 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.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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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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Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster.
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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.
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Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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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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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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