Yann Martel Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. June 25, 1963
Birthday: June 25
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.
source: Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.23, Canongate Books
topic: Love, Blessing, Qualms About, Qualms, Incapacity, Overabundance, Don't Worry Be Happy
