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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
Yann Martel
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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.
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I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?
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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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Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.
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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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I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.
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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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Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation in frenzy.
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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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I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
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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 think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
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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 love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.
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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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There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.
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I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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