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.
YANN MARTELTo 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.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love – but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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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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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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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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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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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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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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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
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The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it’s like to be a woman doesn’t strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.
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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe?
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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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