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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.
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...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something
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I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.
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I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.
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My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
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Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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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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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.
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Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
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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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I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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