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I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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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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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.
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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.
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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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I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
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I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.
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The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.
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