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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Necessity
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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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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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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
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For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right.
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When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
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Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.
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Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.
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The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?
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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.
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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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Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
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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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Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it's a sad view.
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There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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