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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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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
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A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
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To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.
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I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.
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India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.
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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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Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something
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I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.
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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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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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Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.
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Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade.
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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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Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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