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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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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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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.
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I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.
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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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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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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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We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?
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Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
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I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.
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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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The tennis challenger starts strong but soon loses confidence in his playing. The champion racks up the games. But in the final set, when the challenger has nothing left to lose, he becomes relaxed again, insouciant, daring. Suddenly he's playing like the devil and the champion must work hard to get those last points.
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The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?
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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
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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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Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Most of us get our history through story.
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To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.
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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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