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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.
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Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.
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I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
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I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say Oh, I don't read much fiction, as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn't an exercise in storytelling and myth-making.
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There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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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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Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.
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If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something
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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.
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I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.
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