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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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Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
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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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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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Most of us get our history through story.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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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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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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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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Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.
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What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.
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Most people take who they are, naturally, as a given, and they're interested in the sexual other, but not in being the sexual other. Most men are interested in women - whether sexually or not is not the question - but they don't necessarily want to be a woman.
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Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
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A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.
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