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Religion is more than rite and ritual.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.
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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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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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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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At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
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I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.
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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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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
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I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.
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He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.
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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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Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
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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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Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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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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