Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.
YANN MARTELI 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.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
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I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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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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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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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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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
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My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness–how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I’ve got!
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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe?
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I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster.
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