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Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.
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My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered.
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I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.
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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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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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