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Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
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I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.
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My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
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The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.
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Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.
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What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it too faithfully, it sounds a little stilted, because we often don't speak the way we speak in novels. Oral language is much punchier, shorter sentences.
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I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.
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I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.
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But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.
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As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
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When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
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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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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.
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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of 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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I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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