My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
YANN MARTELI 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.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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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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Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it’s a very limited one. And by and large, it isn’t helpful.
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Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.
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Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it’s a sad view.
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Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.
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First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
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If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
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I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others – and I am one of those – never give up. We fight and fight and fight.
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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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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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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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My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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