India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.
YANN MARTELChristianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that’s creation in frenzy.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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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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Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it’s true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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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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First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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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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Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.
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Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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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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