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Religion is more than rite and ritual.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by
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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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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.
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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
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As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
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I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.
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Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.
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We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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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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Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
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I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it's sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It's a very laborious process, but I love doing it.
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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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Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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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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First wonder goes deepest wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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