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Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine. — Yann Martel

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it. — Yann Martel

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first. — Yann Martel

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

Because to suffer and do nothing is to be nothing, while to suffer and do something is to become someone. — Yann Martel

Most of us get our history through story. — Yann Martel

Love is a house with an unshakable foundation and an indestructible roof. — Yann Martel

I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you. — Yann Martel

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

Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart. — Yann Martel

He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him. — Yann Martel

If there is a change, it is usually for the lesser rather than the greater; many people seem to lose God along life's way. — Yann Martel

My suffering left me sad and gloomy. — Yann Martel

We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat. — Yann Martel

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction. — Yann Martel

the senile, lecherous expression of a camel. — Yann Martel

I would nearly go into convulsions of dismay at my stupidity. — Yann Martel

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. — Yann Martel

May books spread the world over! — Yann Martel

Proves to be a devastating hunter. Hyenas attack — Yann Martel

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story. — Yann Martel

Everything in me, right down to the pores of my skin, was expressing joy. — Yann Martel

There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe. — Yann Martel

I went to temple at crowded times when Brahmins were too distracted to come between me and God. — Yann Martel

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better. — Yann Martel

Doesn't the telling of something always become a story? — Yann Martel

It's amazing how willpower can build walls. — Yann Martel

Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. — Yann Martel

Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. — Yann Martel

communion with God in the middle of bags of flour — Yann Martel

What of God's silence? I think it over. I add:
An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and of ultimate purpose. — Yann Martel

There people fail to realise that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. - Pi Patel in Life of Pi
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My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all. — Yann Martel

My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described. — Yann Martel

We must do the same with death in our lives: resolve it, give it meaning, put it into context, however hard that might be. — Yann Martel

Religion is more than rite and ritual. — Yann Martel

wild are, in practice, — Yann Martel

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born. — Yann Martel

Reality escapes us. It's beyond description, even a simple pear. Time eats everything. — Yann Martel

I must go the washroom. I've shaken a lot of hands. — Yann Martel

You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long. — Yann Martel

An epic simplicity — Yann Martel

Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker! — Yann Martel

Now he realized that this matter of faith was either radically to be taken seriously or radically not to be taken seriously. — Yann Martel

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. — Yann Martel

Mamaji remembered, Father dreamed. — Yann Martel

Of the river of time, he worries neither about its spring nor its delta. — Yann Martel

Loneliness comes up to him like a sniffing dog. It circles him insistently. He waves it away, but it refuses to leave him alone. — Yann Martel

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

I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things. — Yann Martel

Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox. — Yann Martel

A plain is what a mountain aims to be: the closest you can come to being in outer space while yet having your feet on this planet. — Yann Martel

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live. — Yann Martel

We believe what we see.
So did Columbus. What do you do when you're in the dark? — Yann Martel

This story has a happy ending. — Yann Martel

Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have. — Yann Martel

Don't you bully me with your politeness! — Yann Martel

If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left. — Yann Martel

Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts. — Yann Martel

Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful, fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared forever from my life. — Yann Martel

Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater imperative. — Yann Martel

The most beautiful rooms I have entered have been empty ones. Warehouses full of light and dust. Empty attics with a view. Coastlines. Prairies. — Yann Martel

At last I managed to haul it aboard. It was over three feet long. The bucket was useless. It would fit the dorado like a hat. — Yann Martel

Then normal sank. — Yann Martel

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

If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you! — Yann Martel

My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean. — Yann Martel

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man. — Yann Martel

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. — Yann Martel

And I survived because I made a point of forgetting. — Yann Martel

Religion?" Mr Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness. — Yann Martel

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity. — Yann Martel

Science can only take you so far and then you have to leap — Yann Martel

War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable. — Yann Martel

Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity. — Yann Martel

Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now. — Yann Martel

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction. — Yann Martel

Catholics have a reputation for severity, for judgment that comes down heavily. — Yann Martel

But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian. — Yann Martel

Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error. — Yann Martel

I am magical: I can bleed for five days and not die. — Yann Martel

When animals fight, it is with the intent to kill and with the understanding that they may be killed. — Yann Martel

If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested. — Yann Martel

In the wild, animals stick to the same paths for the same pressing reasons, season after season. — Yann Martel

The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists. — Yann Martel

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real. — Yann Martel

I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet. — Yann Martel

I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart. — Yann Martel

If it happened, it happened. Why should it have to mean anything? — Yann Martel

I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point. — Yann Martel

...for everything has a trace of the divine in it. — Yann Martel

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry. — Yann Martel

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

He often repeated something Father Abrahan said to him once, how faith is ever young, how faith, unlike the rest of us, does not age. — Yann Martel

For, of course, with all animals, including us, to stare is an aggressive act. — Yann Martel

That's the nature of grief: It's a creature with many arms but few legs, and it staggers about, searching for support. — Yann Martel

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. — Yann Martel

Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love. — Yann Martel

I'm more preoccupied with furnishing my head than the place where I live. The most beautiful rooms I have entered have been empty ones. — Yann Martel

We are all born like Catholics ... in limbo, without religion. — Yann Martel