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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.
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In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
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Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade.
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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.
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Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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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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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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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.
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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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If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
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Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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