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.
YANN MARTELWe don’t want any invention. We want the ‘straight facts,’ as you say in English.” Isn’t telling about something–using words, English or Japanese–already something of an invention? Isn’t just looking upon this world already something of an invention?
More Yann Martel Quotes
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There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul.
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Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
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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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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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I would have like PI to be a Jew, too, to practice Judaism, but there are two religions that are explicitly incompatible: Christianity and Judaism. Where one begins, the other ends, according to Christians, and where one endures, the other strays, according to Jews.
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Stories–individual stories, family stories, national stories–are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
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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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You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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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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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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