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I can’t live for more than four years outside of Canada. I’m Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

  • 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.

    YANN MARTEL
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he’s not careful.

    I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he’s not careful.

    YANN MARTEL
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - I felt I was beating a rainbow to death

    I felt I was beating a rainbow to death

    YANN MARTEL
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion – and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction. Download This Image

    Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion – and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.

    YANN MARTEL
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Music is a bird’s answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.

    Music is a bird’s answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.

    YANN MARTEL
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - If you don’t have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams? Download This Image

    If you don’t have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?

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

    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.

    YANN MARTEL
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - I can well imagine an athiest’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!” – and the deathbed leap of faith. Download This Image

    I can well imagine an athiest’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!” – and the deathbed leap of faith.

    YANN MARTEL
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.

    I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.

    YANN MARTEL
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It’s a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.

    I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It’s a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.

    YANN MARTEL
  • 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.

    YANN MARTEL
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

    The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

    YANN MARTEL
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

    How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

    YANN MARTEL
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.

    Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.

    YANN MARTEL
  • 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.

    YANN MARTEL
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.

    Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.

    YANN MARTEL