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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?
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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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How does one say in the jargon of musicology that my sould was pulled out of me and thrown up in the air, to be tossed about by the music. How does one say that I breathed, that I existed, in harmony with the ups and downs of those notes. What kind of notes both elevate and cast down, exalt and crush?
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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. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.
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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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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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I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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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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Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.
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Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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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 have a story that will make you believe in God.
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