Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
YANN MARTELTo 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.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it’s sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It’s a very laborious process, but I love doing it.
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Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it’s true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
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We think we live in a global village. We don’t. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
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I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo.
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I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.
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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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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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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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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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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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Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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