Yann Martel Quotes
Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
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A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
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Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.
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Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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And from the point of view of art there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies. That those lies are necessary to our mental selves is beyond any doubt, as it is through them that we form our aesthetic point of view of life. (Paris 1923)
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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
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For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
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Make today the BEST day of your life, because there is no good reason not to.
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Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.
