Yann Martel Quotes - Page 10

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• How does one say in the jargon of musicology that my sould was pulled out of me and thrown up in the air, to be tossed about by the music. How does one say that I breathed, that I existed, in harmony with the ups and downs of those notes. What kind of notes both elevate and cast down, exalt and crush?

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  Crush, Air, Jargon

  Yann Martel (1993). “The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios”, Orlando : Harcourt

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• Most of us get our history through story.

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  Stories

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• ...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something

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  Animal

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• Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

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  Emotion

  "Life of Pi author Yann Martel: 'Overall, I think it's a wonderful companion piece'". Interview with Mark Medley, nationalpost.com. November 21, 2012.

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• You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!

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  Believe, Moving, May

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

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  Mind, Suffering, Want

  Yann Martel (2002). “Life Of Pi”, p.381, Canongate Books

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• How bitterly glad I am to see you. You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it won't be for long. What do you know about the sea? Nothing. What do I know about the sea? Nothing. Without a driver this bus is lost. Our lives are over. Come aboard if your destination is oblivion-- It should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat, if you want. But it's a sad view. Oh enough of this disembling. Let me say plainly: I love you, I love you, I love you. I love you, I love you, I love you. Not the spiders, please.

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  Pain, Love You, Views

  "Life of Pi". Book by Yann Martel, September 11, 2001.

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• 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. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.

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  Brother, Children, Moving

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• We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.

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  Beautiful, Garden, Thinking

  Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. October 2, 2002.

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• 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.

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  Joy, Cinema, Boxes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.

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  Zoos, Civilization, Territory

  Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. October 2, 2002.

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• I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.

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  Powerful, Thinking, Risk

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.

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  Mean, Research, Alive

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.

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  Thinking, Movie Love, Would Be

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.

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  Book, Imagination, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

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  People, Mind, Stories

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.

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  War, Way, Transportation

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• We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews. We know very well-known fixed places like Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka, and Beltzec. Instead, war can live in a couple having a spat, when we say, "That was a real war." We very rarely have the Holocaust live in the terms of today. And I think that's a problem, because it becomes ancient history.

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  Couple, Real, War

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

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  Imagination, And Love, India

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it too faithfully, it sounds a little stilted, because we often don't speak the way we speak in novels. Oral language is much punchier, shorter sentences.

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  Book, Littles, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.

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  Beautiful, Sunday, Mosques

  Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. October 2, 2002.

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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. I would have like PI to be a Jew, too, to practice Judaism, but there are two religions that are explicitly incompatible: Christianity and Judaism. Where one begins, the other ends, according to Christians, and where one endures, the other strays, according to Jews.

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  Christian, Practice, Two

  Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. October 2, 2002.

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• In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

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  Art, Air, Stories

  Source: www.avclub.com

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