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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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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!
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Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation in frenzy.
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First wonder goes deepest wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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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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The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it's like to be a woman doesn't strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.
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Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.
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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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We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?
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Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.
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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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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.
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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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