All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.
Yann MartelIt's not right that gentleness meet horror.
Yann MartelWithout a driver this bus is lost.
Yann MartelCome aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it's a sad view.
Yann MartelYou bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
Yann MartelI would nearly go into convulsions of dismay at my stupidity.
Yann MartelThere's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.
Yann MartelWe are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
Yann MartelAs for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the outside eye. It was rather entirely external, coming from the minds of others. It existed in the way people looked at him or behaved towards him. In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have.
Yann MartelTags: thought-provoking
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar--the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.
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