Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
YANN MARTELThe language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love – but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving.
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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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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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It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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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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He’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.
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Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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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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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.
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