I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
YANN MARTELThere 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.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.
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There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
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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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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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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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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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Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that’s creation in frenzy.
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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don’t, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.
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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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