I was giving up. I would have given up – if a voice hadn’t made itself heard in my heart. The voice said “I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare.
YANN MARTELMuch hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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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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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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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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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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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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…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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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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We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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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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I can’t live for more than four years outside of Canada. I’m Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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I chose the name Pi because it’s an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a “rational” understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, “irrational” yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe.
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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