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Christianity is a religion in a rush.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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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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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
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Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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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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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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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.
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It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.
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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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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered.
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I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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