Yann Martel Quotes about Memories

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Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.

Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.

Yann Martel

Art, Memories, Vaccines

Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.16, Canongate Books

For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.

Yann Martel

Memories, Fear, Real

Yann Martel (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt