Yann Martel Quotes - Page 8

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• Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?

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  World, Using Words, Invention

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.428, Canongate Books

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• Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?

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  Salvation, Greater

  Yann Martel (2015). “Life of Pi - CANCELED”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?

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  Tree, Faults, Kind

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.90, Canongate Books

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• My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

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  Suffering, Gloomy, Left

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.12, Canongate Books

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• I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.

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  Zebras, Overboard

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.110, Vintage Canada

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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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  Heart, Light, Shining

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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  Technology, Ideas, Two

  Yann Martel (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God is universal," spluttered the priest. The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God." "And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are,: pronounced the pandit. "Says the slave-driver of the cast system," huffed the imam. "Hindus enslave people and worship dressed-up dolls." "They are golden calf lovers. They kneel before the cows," the priest chimed in. "While Christians kneel before a white man! They are flunkies of a foreign god. They are nightmare of all nonwhite people.

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  Christian, Strong, Men

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.75, Vintage Canada

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• As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

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  Sloth, Sound, Hearing

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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  Real, Emotional, Fiction

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.

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  Zoos, Acres, Fit

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The tennis challenger starts strong but soon loses confidence in his playing. The champion racks up the games. But in the final set, when the challenger has nothing left to lose, he becomes relaxed again, insouciant, daring. Suddenly he's playing like the devil and the champion must work hard to get those last points.

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  Strong, Hard Work, Games

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.149, Vintage Canada

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• Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.

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  Animal, Expression, Insecurity

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.73, Canongate Books

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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. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer

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  Two, Hearing, Add

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.292, Vintage Canada

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• Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.

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  Want, God Love, Said

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

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  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.

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  Self, Sloth, Three

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.14, Canongate Books

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• A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

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  Communication, Novelists, Pages

  "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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• The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

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  Book, Different, Cinema

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 6, 2007.

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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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  Sea, Water, Perfection

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• 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?

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  Book, Writing, Mind

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• Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.

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  Uplifting, Moving, Reality

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• My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.

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  Book, Wish, Salvation

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.230, Vintage Canada

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• Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.

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  Moving, People, Mark

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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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  Years, Four, Canada

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