Life Of Pi Book Quotes - Page 2

• What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.

  Yann Martel

  Farewell, Terrible, Terrible Things

  Yann Martel (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.294, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?

  Yann Martel

  Giving, Reptiles, Answers

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

  Yann Martel

  Prayer, Philosophy, Moving

  "Life of Pi". Book by Yann Martel, September 11, 2001.

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• Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.

  Yann Martel

  Animal, Expression, Insecurity

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.73, Canongate Books

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• Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.

  Yann Martel

  Lifeboats

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.312, Canongate Books

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