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.
YANN MARTELI have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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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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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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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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If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.
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Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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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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Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.
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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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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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There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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