One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy.
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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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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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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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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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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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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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I’ve made none the champion.
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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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Music is a bird’s answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
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People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.
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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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