A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
YANN MARTELI can’t live for more than four years outside of Canada. I’m Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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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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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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I’m not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don’t have a mobile. I just don’t need things. I don’t like things.
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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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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.
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I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
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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.
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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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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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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.
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