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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
Yann Martel
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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!
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Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
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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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It's amazing how willpower can build walls.
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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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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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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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Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.
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I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.
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The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
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In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
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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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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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Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
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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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Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.
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Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.
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My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
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Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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