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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.
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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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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.
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Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
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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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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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The tennis challenger starts strong but soon loses confidence in his playing. The champion racks up the games. But in the final set, when the challenger has nothing left to lose, he becomes relaxed again, insouciant, daring. Suddenly he's playing like the devil and the champion must work hard to get those last points.
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It's amazing how willpower can build walls.
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If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.
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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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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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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
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...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something
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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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Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.
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[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.
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