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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.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it too faithfully, it sounds a little stilted, because we often don't speak the way we speak in novels. Oral language is much punchier, shorter sentences.
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I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say Oh, I don't read much fiction, as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn't an exercise in storytelling and myth-making.
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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.
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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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The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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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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Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.
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It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
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Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.
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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
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When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
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I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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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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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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In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
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