Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
YANN MARTELFor fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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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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Stories–individual stories, family stories, national stories–are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
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How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights and all the moons. To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle.
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Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it’s a sad view.
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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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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