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You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.
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...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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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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No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.
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There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It's extraordinarily satisfying.
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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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In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
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Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this.
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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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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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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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