How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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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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It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights and all the moons. To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle.
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When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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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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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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I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.
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