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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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It's amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.
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We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?
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...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.
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Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.
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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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That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
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The tennis challenger starts strong but soon loses confidence in his playing. The champion racks up the games. But in the final set, when the challenger has nothing left to lose, he becomes relaxed again, insouciant, daring. Suddenly he's playing like the devil and the champion must work hard to get those last points.
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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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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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
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For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right.
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.
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But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.
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If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.
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