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We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God
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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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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 can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
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Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
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I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it's sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It's a very laborious process, but I love doing it.
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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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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
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The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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