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To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Depravity
Dignity
Religion

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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
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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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A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.
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India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.
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Most people take who they are, naturally, as a given, and they're interested in the sexual other, but not in being the sexual other. Most men are interested in women - whether sexually or not is not the question - but they don't necessarily want to be a woman.
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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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I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by
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What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it too faithfully, it sounds a little stilted, because we often don't speak the way we speak in novels. Oral language is much punchier, shorter sentences.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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It's amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.
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All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
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A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is the joy of cinema.
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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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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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As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
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