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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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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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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.
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If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
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It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
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If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?
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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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Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?
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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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I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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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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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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A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.
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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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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
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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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