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No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Live
Nausea
Sap
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Dies

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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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The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.
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The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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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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Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
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Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.
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I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
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Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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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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I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say Oh, I don't read much fiction, as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn't an exercise in storytelling and myth-making.
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There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.
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It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.
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...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.
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First wonder goes deepest wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it's sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It's a very laborious process, but I love doing it.
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science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.
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I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
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