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There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.
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Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
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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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You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?
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I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.
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It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.
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To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.
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Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
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I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
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