Quotes by Yann Martel

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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. — Yann Martel
So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you — Yann Martel
Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go a — Yann Martel
Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? — Yann Martel
It's a misery peculiar to would-be writers. Your theme is good, as are your sentences. Your characters are so ruddy with — Yann Martel
To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity. — Yann Martel
He seems to be attracting religions the way a dog attracts fleas. — Yann Martel
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity- its envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fal — Yann Martel
I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot wh — Yann Martel
Let that be a reminder to you that the past is one thing, but what we make of it, the conclusions we draw, is another. H — Yann Martel
A story is a wedding in which we listeners are the groom watching the bride coming up the aisle. It is together, in an a — Yann Martel
A story is a wedding in which we listeners are the groom watching the bride coming up the aisle. It is together, in an a — Yann Martel
The sad fact is there are no natural deaths, despite what doctors say. Every death is felt by someone as a murder, the u — Yann Martel
If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. I — Yann Martel
Doesn't the telling of something always become a story? — Yann Martel
The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals. — Yann Martel
In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match. — Yann Martel
I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We mus — Yann Martel
But it was hard, oh, it was hard. Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love--but som — Yann Martel
I did not grasp all these details - and many more - right away. They came to my notice with time and as a result of nece — Yann Martel