To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches.
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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I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo.
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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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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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It’s hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it’s hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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If you don’t have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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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 would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul.
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To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing–I’m sorry, I would rather not go on.
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