I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
YANN MARTELRepetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
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Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.
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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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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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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.
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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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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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One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy.
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My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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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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First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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A 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.
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