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...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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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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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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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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Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
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You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God
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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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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
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Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.
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science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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