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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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Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?
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Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
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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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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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