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I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.

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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If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.
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Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.
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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.
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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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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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Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.
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If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?
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Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
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I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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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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A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
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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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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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