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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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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
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I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.
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Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade.
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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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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.
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A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
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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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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
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It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
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We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?
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It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.
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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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I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.
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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall of reason, that fool's gold for the bright - reminded me of the three-toed sloth and the three-toed sloth, such a beautiful example of the miracle of life, reminded me of God.
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God
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