I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
YANN MARTELAll living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.
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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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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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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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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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Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God… These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.
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As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
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I chose the name Pi because it’s an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a “rational” understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, “irrational” yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe.
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