Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you’ve defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
YANN MARTELA 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.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others – and I am one of those – never give up. We fight and fight and fight.
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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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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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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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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.
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That’s what fiction is about, isn’t it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
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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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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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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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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they’re all we have.
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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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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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