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

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.
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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Most of us get our history through story.
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Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
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Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.
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The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it's like to be a woman doesn't strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.
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If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
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All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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First wonder goes deepest wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Religion is more than rite and ritual.
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