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.
YANN MARTELIn art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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There 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.
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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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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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If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers.
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I can well imagine an athiest’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!” – and the deathbed leap of faith.
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I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he’s not careful.
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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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I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.
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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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As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
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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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We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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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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You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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