#na

I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point. ↗

— Yann Martel

#canadian #four #i #live #more

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion. ↗

— Yann Martel

#bullets #fashion #grenades #i #long

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. ↗

— Yann Martel

#dint #duh #effect #emotions #ends

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction. ↗

— Yann Martel

#fiction #how #imagination #interpret #interpretation

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. ↗

— Jose Marti

#death #glory #innate #insatiable #instinct

The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women. ↗

— Jose Marti

#lack #nations #only #struggles #support

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. ↗

— Jose Marti

#equilibrium #fortunately #men #nations #sane

Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men. ↗

— Jose Marti

#mountains #nations #peaks

Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally. ↗

— Andrea Martin

#calls #course #difficult #down #mike

Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything. ↗

— Chris Martin

#become #benefit #bled #countries #dry