Christianity is a religion in a rush.
YANN MARTELI would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
More Yann Martel Quotes
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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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You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
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Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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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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It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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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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The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice three.
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We don’t want any invention. We want the ‘straight facts,’ as you say in English.” Isn’t telling about something–using words, English or Japanese–already something of an invention? Isn’t just looking upon this world already something of an invention?
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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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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 is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.
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The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
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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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