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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
Yann Martel
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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
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Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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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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Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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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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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
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I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?
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High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
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A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is the joy of cinema.
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I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
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I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.
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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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Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.
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