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

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
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It's hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it's hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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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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It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.
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Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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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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To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.
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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.
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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.
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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
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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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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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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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