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Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.
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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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We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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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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The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.
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I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.
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Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by
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Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.
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I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
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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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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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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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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
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The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.
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...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
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