Yann Martel Quotes About Age

• Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar-the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.

  Yann Martel

  Love, Blessing, Qualms About

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.23, Canongate Books

• Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.

  Yann Martel

  Essence, Age, Christianity

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.63, Vintage Canada

• Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?

  Yann Martel

  Men, Age, Able

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice & Virgil”, p.91, Knopf Canada

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