I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl’s kiss on your cheek.
YANN MARTELIn a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don’t, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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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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To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches.
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The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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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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Once you’ve been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.
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I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he’s not careful.
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First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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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.
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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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