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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.
Yann Martel
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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It's extraordinarily satisfying.
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I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end.
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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.
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My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered.
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Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
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Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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First wonder goes deepest wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.
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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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