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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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It's amazing how willpower can build walls.
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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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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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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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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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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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Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.
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A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
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I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end.
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I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it's sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It's a very laborious process, but I love doing it.
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You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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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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Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
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I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.
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My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.
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