As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
YANN MARTELI was giving up. I would have given up – if a voice hadn’t made itself heard in my heart. The voice said “I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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Stories–individual stories, family stories, national stories–are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
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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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The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story?
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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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To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches.
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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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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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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
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Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it’s a sad view.
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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights and all the moons. To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle.
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