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 MARTELSitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that’s why we should change it. I didn’t say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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I can well imagine an athiest’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!” – and the deathbed leap of faith.
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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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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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People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.
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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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My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
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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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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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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
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Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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