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First wonder goes deepest wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.
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To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
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Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
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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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Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.
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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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The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it's like to be a woman doesn't strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.
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These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
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I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
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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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The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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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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Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.
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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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