The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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.
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You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
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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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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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Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion – and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
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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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I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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It’s hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it’s hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
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If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers.
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It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
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My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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