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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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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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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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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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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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A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
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You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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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.
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There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It's extraordinarily satisfying.
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...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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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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How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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Religion is more than rite and ritual.
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I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
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Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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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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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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Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
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I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.
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When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
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