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 MARTELThe idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.
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Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.
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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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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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In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed.
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I’ve made none the champion.
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A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal – of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds of Tanzania – but a good zoo is a decent, acceptable place.
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Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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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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