We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
YANN MARTELscience can only take you so far and then you have to leap
More Yann Martel Quotes
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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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If you don’t have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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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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I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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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 stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe?
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It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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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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