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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.
Yann Martel
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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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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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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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Religion is more than rite and ritual.
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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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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's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.
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If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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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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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
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Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by
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I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.
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I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.
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Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.
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To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.
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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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Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
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