“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Things didn't turn out the way they were suppsed to, but qhat can you do? You must take life the way it… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Things didn't turn out the way they're supposed to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Things didn't turn out the way they used to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“ Plan Number Three: Attack Him with All Available Weaponry. Ludicrous. I wasn’t Tarzan. I was a puny, feeble, vegetarian life form.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you, that's one thing I hate about my nickname, the way the number runs on forever. It's important in life… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others- and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The matter is difficult to put into words. For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“It's a misery peculiar to would-be writers. Your theme is good, as are your sentences. Your characters are so ruddy with life… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans." Yann Martel in Life of Pi, Page 25 — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“There are those who take upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence, were… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“There people fail to realise that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. - Pi… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I don't know if I saw blood before turning into Mother's arms or if I daubed it on later, in my memory,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. - "The Life of Pi” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“If there is a change, it is usually for the lesser rather than the greater; many people seem to lose God along… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? [...] Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“There are many examples of animals coming to surprising living arrangements...where an animal takes a human being or another animal to be… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it,… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.” — Yann Martel Copy Share
“I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary,… — Yann Martel Copy Share
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves,… — Yann Martel Copy Share
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open… — Yann Martel Copy Share
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of… — Yann Martel Copy Share
Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater. — Yann Martel Copy Share
“Uvek ima onih koji uzmu za pravo da brane Boga, kao da je Poslednja stvarnost, kao da je temeljni ram postojanja nešto slabašno i… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity- its envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with… — Yann Martel Copy Share
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