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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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First wonder goes deepest wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.
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I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.
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My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
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Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.
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I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.
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Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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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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In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.
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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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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 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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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall of reason, that fool's gold for the bright - reminded me of the three-toed sloth and the three-toed sloth, such a beautiful example of the miracle of life, reminded me of God.
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I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.
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I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
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It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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