Beatrice and Virgil
Yann Martel
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.”
“A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.”
“Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.”
“Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?”
“Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.”
“To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of yourself? You can’t. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever you go as long as you stay in the sun. And who wouldn’t want to be in the sun?”
“Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?”
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