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Want Quotes by Yann Martel

14 Want quotes by Yann Martel

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Martel’s reflections on wanting are short but punchy, perfect for a quick pause in a busy day. This thin set still manages to hint at his broader themes of adventure and meaning, giving readers a snapshot of how desire can steer a story—or a life—without overwhelming the page.

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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.

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

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But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.

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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,…

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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is…

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Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write.…

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High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too…

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Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window…

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I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't…

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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…

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Most people take who they are, naturally, as a given, and they're interested in the sexual other, but not in being the…

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To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow?…

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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,…

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So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become…

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“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.”

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“Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.”

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“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,…

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I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves,…

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High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate…

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“Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.”

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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 laws…

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“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were…

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“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…

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“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open…

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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…

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

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“Uvek ima onih koji uzmu za pravo da brane Boga, kao da je Poslednja stvarnost, kao da je temeljni ram postojanja nešto slabašno i…

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“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…

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