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If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Remember
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Counted
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Misery
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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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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.
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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.
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Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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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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First wonder goes deepest wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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