Beth Alyssa (neverwas) wrote in excerpts, @ 2004-07-11 17:11:00

The Life of Pi by Yann Martel

"If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up beliving in nothing and having worthless dreams."


"We commonly say in teh trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man. In a general way we mean how our species' excessive predatoriness has made the entire planet our prey."

"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 low or convention, shows n mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease."

"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. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up."

"At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to endtertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far."

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