Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
YANN MARTELWe were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
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Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.
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It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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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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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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Music is a bird’s answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.
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Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.
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You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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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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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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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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