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We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
Yann Martel
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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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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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It's amazing how willpower can build walls.
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To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.
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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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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.
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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. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.
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A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.
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Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
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Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.
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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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You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?
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Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
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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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Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
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