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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?
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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.
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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
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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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Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation in frenzy.
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The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?
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I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
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If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
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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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There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.
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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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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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It's amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Most of us get our history through story.
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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
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To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.
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First wonder goes deepest wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.
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