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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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There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.
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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?
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Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by
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The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
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I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.
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I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.
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I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.
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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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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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Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.
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There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.
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My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
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Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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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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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.
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