In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
YANN MARTELMy greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal – of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds of Tanzania – but a good zoo is a decent, acceptable place.
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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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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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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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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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We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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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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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers.
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If you don’t have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
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