Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that’s creation in frenzy.
YANN MARTELI 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.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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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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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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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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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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How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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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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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn’t have the stomach to use the sharp edge).
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Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness–how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I’ve got!
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The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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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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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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