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Yann Martel is Canadian author best known for the book Life of Pi. Explore interesting quotes on use.
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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.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

“You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

“The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

“Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

“Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time." Page 212.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Variant: I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
Source: Life of Pi

“Here was irrefutable proof that he was using the Holocaust to speak of the extermination of animal life. Doomed creatures that could not speak for themselves were being given the voice of a most articulate people who had been similarly doomed. He was seeing the tragic fate of animals through the tragic fate of Jews. The Holocaust as allegory.”

Yann Martel

Source: Beatrice & Virgil (2010), p. 173