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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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Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.
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To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
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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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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.
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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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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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It's hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it's hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
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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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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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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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Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.
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How does one say in the jargon of musicology that my sould was pulled out of me and thrown up in the air, to be tossed about by the music. How does one say that I breathed, that I existed, in harmony with the ups and downs of those notes. What kind of notes both elevate and cast down, exalt and crush?
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Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
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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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...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something
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