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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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The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?
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Most people take who they are, naturally, as a given, and they're interested in the sexual other, but not in being the sexual other. Most men are interested in women - whether sexually or not is not the question - but they don't necessarily want to be a woman.
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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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As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
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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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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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Most of us get our history through story.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.
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I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
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Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.
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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
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Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.
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Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.
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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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Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.
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