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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Novelist
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Fields
Cold
Words
Understand
Sprites
Trying
Toads
Muddy
Field
Dancing

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Most of us get our history through story.
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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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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.
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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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A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
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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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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
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Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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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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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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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.
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These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
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We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?
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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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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.
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