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Yann Martel Quotes

How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter? Picture Quote #1

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God Picture Quote #1

I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye Picture Quote #1

A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea Picture Quote #1

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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness Picture Quote #1

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it Picture Quote #1

Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater Picture Quote #1

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science Picture Quote #1

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe? Picture Quote #1

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe Picture Quote #1

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I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses Picture Quote #1

I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape Picture Quote #1

It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go Picture Quote #1

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book Picture Quote #1

There’s no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I’m not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don’t have a mobile. I just don’t need things. I don’t like things Picture Quote #1

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that Picture Quote #1

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud Picture Quote #1

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they’ve known for a great unknown beyond the horizon?... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life Picture Quote #1

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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don’t feel the pain of others because they haven’t imaginatively got under their skins Picture Quote #1

Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this Picture Quote #1

Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another Picture Quote #1

Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing Picture Quote #1

I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl’s kiss on your cheek Picture Quote #1

I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. 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 Picture Quote #1

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How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter? (Yann Martel Quotes) The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God (Yann Martel Quotes) I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye (Yann Martel Quotes) A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably (Yann Martel Quotes) 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 Quotes) Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea (Yann Martel Quotes) Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness (Yann Martel Quotes) Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it (Yann Martel Quotes) Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater (Yann Martel Quotes) Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science (Yann Martel Quotes) If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe? (Yann Martel Quotes) A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe (Yann Martel Quotes) I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses (Yann Martel Quotes) I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape (Yann Martel Quotes) It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go (Yann Martel Quotes) 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 Quotes) There’s no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day (Yann Martel Quotes) 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 (Yann Martel Quotes) I’m not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don’t have a mobile. I just don’t need things. I don’t like things (Yann Martel Quotes) If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that (Yann Martel Quotes) Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud (Yann Martel Quotes) If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe? (Yann Martel Quotes) 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 Martel Quotes) Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they’ve known for a great unknown beyond the horizon?... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life (Yann Martel Quotes) If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don’t feel the pain of others because they haven’t imaginatively got under their skins (Yann Martel Quotes) Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this (Yann Martel Quotes) Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another (Yann Martel Quotes) Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing (Yann Martel Quotes) I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl’s kiss on your cheek (Yann Martel Quotes) I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. 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 (Yann Martel Quotes)

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