Yann Martel Quotes

• Nature as a whole was an exceptionally fine illustration of science.

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• In the literature can be found legions of examples of animals that could escape but did not, or did and returned.

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• Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer.

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  Those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards.

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• I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.

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• Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

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• Religion is more than rite and ritual.

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• He seems to be attracting religions the way a dog attracts fleas.

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• To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.

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• Christianity is a religion in a rush.

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• Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

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• Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love – but sometimes it was so hard to love.

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• If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

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• Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

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  Tags in Music, Books

• Books, like people, can’t be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.

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  You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

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  Topics in Inspirational, Life

  Tags in Best, Make

• To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

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  Topics in Life

• Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can.

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  Topics in Death, Life

• Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can.

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  Topics in Life, Love

• You can’t quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

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  Topics in Death

  Tags in Time, Pain

Yann Martel (57)

Birth:	25th June, 1963
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Novelist

About

Yann Martel was born in Salamanca, Spain. He is a Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, a international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. He is also the author of the novels Beatrice and Virgil and Self. He has won a number of literary prizes, including the 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. His first published fictional work, Seven Stories, appeared in 1993.

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