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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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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall of reason, that fool's gold for the bright - reminded me of the three-toed sloth and the three-toed sloth, such a beautiful example of the miracle of life, reminded me of God.
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It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.
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Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.
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I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.
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I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.
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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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You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something
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Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
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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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Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?
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In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.
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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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