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In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.
Yann Martel
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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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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.
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The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.
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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
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I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
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That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.
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To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.
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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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We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
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My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
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