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Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
Yann Martel
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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered.
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's a good country to write from because in many ways Canada is the world.
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins.
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Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.
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Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
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Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
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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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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
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I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.
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I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say Oh, I don't read much fiction, as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn't an exercise in storytelling and myth-making.
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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.
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