Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
YANN MARTELMockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that’s why we should change it. I didn’t say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
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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 can get used to anything – haven’t I already said that? Isn’t that what all survivors say?
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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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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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Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
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It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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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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The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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That’s what fiction is about, isn’t it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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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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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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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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I can’t live for more than four years outside of Canada. I’m Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
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