Music is a bird’s answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
YANN MARTELI 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.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
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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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In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have.
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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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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed.
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The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It’s extraordinarily satisfying.
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…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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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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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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It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I’ve made none the champion.
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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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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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