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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Gratitude
Grateful
Ocean
Pacific
Boundless

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Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins.
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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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It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
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Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation in frenzy.
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I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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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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First wonder goes deepest wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's a good country to write from because in many ways Canada is the world.
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As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.
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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
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Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.
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At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
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Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
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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.
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