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Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.
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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.
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To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.
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Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.
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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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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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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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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
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Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.
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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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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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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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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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Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!
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Most of us get our history through story.
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