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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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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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I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end.
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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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A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.
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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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There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.
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Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
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There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It's extraordinarily satisfying.
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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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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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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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's a good country to write from because in many ways Canada is the world.
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.
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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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