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Yann Martel Quote: “Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.”
Yann Martel Quote: “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. 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.”
Yann Martel Quote: “We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.”
Yann Martel Quote: “Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.”
Yann Martel Quote: “I was alone and orphaned, in the middle of the Pacific, hanging on to an oar, an adult tiger in front of me, sharks beneath me, a storm raging about me.”
Yann Martel Quote: “It’s not atheists who get stuck in my caw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for awhile. We all must pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we... But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as means of transportation.”
Yann Martel Quote: “To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.”
Yann Martel Quote: “I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.”
Yann Martel Quote: “I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it’s sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It’s a very laborious process, but I love doing it.”
Yann Martel Quote: “A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is the joy of cinema.”
Yann Martel Quote: “I must go the washroom. I’ve shaken a lot of hands.”
Yann Martel Quote: “A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.”
Yann Martel Quote: “What his uncle does not understand is that in walking backwards, his back to the world, his back to God, he is not grieving. He is objecting. Because when everything cherished by you in life has been taken away, what else is there to do but object?”
Yann Martel Quote: “There’s nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.”
Yann Martel Quote: “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. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer.”
Yann Martel Quote: “Truly I am in a sacred cosmic womb, a place where everything is born, and it is my sweet luck to behold its living core. My hands naturally come together in reverent worship.”
Yann Martel Quote: “Another favorite position of his was sitting with his back to me, his rear half resting on the floor of the boat and his front half on the bench, his face buried into the stern, paws right next to his head, looking as if we were playing hide-and-seek and he were the one counting. In this position he tended to lie very still, with only the occasional twitching of his ears to indicate that he is not necessarily sleeping.”
Yann Martel Quote: “A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.”
Yann Martel Quote: “In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed. Once you’ve been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.”
Yann Martel Quote: “The most beautiful rooms I have entered have been empty ones. Warehouses full of light and dust. Empty attics with a view. Coastlines. Prairies.”
Yann Martel Quote: “I went to temple at crowded times when Brahmins were too distracted to come between me and God.”
Yann Martel Quote: “My next book – each one while I’m working on it – dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn’t, why would I write it?”
Yann Martel Quote: “While Odo has mastered the simple human trick of making porridge, Peter has learned the difficult animal skill of doing nothing. He’s learned to unshackle himself from the race of time and contemplate time itself. As far as he can tell, that’s what Odo spends most of his time doing: being in time, like one sits by a river, watching the water go by. It’s a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.”
Yann Martel Quote: “Loneliness comes up to him like a sniffing dog. It circles him insistently. He waves it away, but it refuses to leave him alone.”
Yann Martel Quote: “Under the pathologist’s microscope, life and death fight in an illuminated circle in a sort of cellular bullfight. The pathologist’s job is to find the bull among the matador cells.”
Yann Martel Quote: “Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love – but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation.”
Yann Martel Quote: “War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.”
Yann Martel Quote: “Right away, death is word-eating.”
Yann Martel Quote: “Without a driver this bus is lost.”
Yann Martel Quote: “A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.”
Yann Martel Quote: “I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say “Oh, I don’t read much fiction,” as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn’t an exercise in storytelling and myth-making.”
Yann Martel Quote: “Of the river of time, he worries neither about its spring nor its delta.”
Yann Martel Quote: “My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.”
Yann Martel Quote: “Life goes on and you don’t touch tigers.”
Yann Martel Quote: “Everything in me, right down to the pores of my skin, was expressing joy.”
Yann Martel Quote: “Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.”
Yann Martel Quote: “Love is a house with many rooms, this room to feed the love, this one to entertain it, this one to clean it, this one to dress it, this one to allow it to rest, and each of these rooms can also just as well be the room for laughing or the room for listening or the room for apologizing or the room for intimate togetherness, and, of course, there are the rooms for the new members of the household.”
Yann Martel Quote: “Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.”
Yann Martel Quote: “The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.”
Yann Martel Quote: “A story is a wedding in which we listeners are the groom watching the bride coming up the aisle. It is together, in an act of imaginary consummation, that the story is born. This act wholly involves us, as any marriage would, and just as no marriage is exactly the same as another, so each of us interprets a story differently, feels for it differently. A story calls upon us... as individuals-and we like that. Stories benefit the human mind.”
Yann Martel Quote: “I noticed how those who know the truth are always treated with suspicion and disdain. That was the case with Jesus, of course. But look at old Miss Marple. Always she knows, and everyone is surprised that she does. And the same with Hercule Poirot. How can that ridiculous little man know anything? But he does, he does. It is the triumph of the meek, in Agatha Christie as in the Gospels.”
Yann Martel Quote: “We are cynical about our own species, but less so about animals, especially wild ones. We might not shelter them from habitat destruction, but we do tend to shelter them from excessive irony.”
Yann Martel Quote: “English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was the music from the streets.”
Yann Martel Quote: “That’s the nature of grief: It’s a creature with many arms but few legs, and it staggers about, searching for support.”
Yann Martel Quote: “But religion is more than rite and ritual. There is what the rite and ritual stand for.”
Yann Martel Quote: “Most of us get our history through story.”
Yann Martel Quote: “Memory is a glue: it attaches you to everything, even to what you don’t like.”
Yann Martel Quote: “I kept one eye on the horizon, one eye on the other end of the lifeboat.”
Yann Martel Quote: “Strange in a familiar way, familiar in a strange way.”
Yann Martel Quote: “Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English’s drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don’t-worry-be-happy concern for grammar – the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.”
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