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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?
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Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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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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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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Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team.
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Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
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We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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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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Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.
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Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
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It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Most of us get our history through story.
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I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.
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