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  • Yann Martel Quote - At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
  • Yann Martel Quote - At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
  • Yann Martel Quote - At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
  • Yann Martel Quote - At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
  • Yann Martel Quote - At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
  • Yann Martel Quote - At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
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At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.

Yann Martel

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.

    Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.

    YANN MARTEL
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl’s kiss on your cheek.

    I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl’s kiss on your cheek.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don’t, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.

    In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don’t, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.

    Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - I 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.

    I 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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.

    Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - It’s hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it’s hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

    It’s hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it’s hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have.

    In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.

    I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing–I’m sorry, I would rather not go on.

    To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing–I’m sorry, I would rather not go on.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - 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.

    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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

    I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

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