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A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
Yann Martel
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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
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Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.
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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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...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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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is the joy of cinema.
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Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.
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Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.
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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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Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.
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Religion is more than rite and ritual.
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Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.
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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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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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