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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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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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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.
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My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.
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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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Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by
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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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It's amazing how willpower can build walls.
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There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.
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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 and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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First wonder goes deepest wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
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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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High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
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There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It's extraordinarily satisfying.
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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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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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