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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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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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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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Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
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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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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.
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But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.
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I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.
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Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
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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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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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Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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It's amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
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