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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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It's amazing how willpower can build walls.
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My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
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People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.
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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
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As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
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How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
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The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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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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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.
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I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
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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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Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.
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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
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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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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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