“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
Author detail
Yann Martel (born June 25, 1963) is a Canadian author who wrote the Man Booker Prize-winning novel *Life of Pi,* an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. *Life of Pi* was adapted for a movie directed by Ang Lee, garnering four Oscars. Martel is also the author of the novels *The High Mountains of Portugal,* *Beatrice and Virgil,* and *Self;* the collection of stories The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios; and a collection of letters to Canada's Prime Minister, *101 Letters to a Prime Minister.*
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“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
“I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the h...”
“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no impor...”
“Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so uncer...”
“Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.”
“You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”
“These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from withi...”
“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or conven...”
“To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree...”
“..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.”
“Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.”
“Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then...”
“These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But if they perceive a slight against God, it i...”
“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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“Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?”
“So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story...”
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“The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile, the lot of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to t...”
“Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain....”
“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can.”