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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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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 suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
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Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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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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Most of us get our history through story.
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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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As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
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It's hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it's hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
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When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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Religion is more than rite and ritual.
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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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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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In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
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There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall of reason, that fool's gold for the bright - reminded me of the three-toed sloth and the three-toed sloth, such a beautiful example of the miracle of life, reminded me of God.
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A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
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My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.
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