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It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Simple
Used
Anything
Persons
Person
Even
Brutal
Killing

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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.
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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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I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
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Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
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I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
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I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
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There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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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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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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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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It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.
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