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...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Everything
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...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.
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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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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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Religion is more than rite and ritual.
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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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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
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I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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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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How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!
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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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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
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If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?
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Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.
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I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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