I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving.
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.
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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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It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I’ve made none the champion.
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…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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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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I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
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The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice three.
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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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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion – and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
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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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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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