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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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Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.
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My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.
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I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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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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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.
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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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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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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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Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
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In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.
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The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
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No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.
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When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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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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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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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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The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.
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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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