If you don’t have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
YANN MARTELIt’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story?
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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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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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I’m not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don’t have a mobile. I just don’t need things. I don’t like things.
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Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it’s true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
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All 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.
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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I was giving up. I would have given up – if a voice hadn’t made itself heard in my heart. The voice said “I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare.
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…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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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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