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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 have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end.
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
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I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.
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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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The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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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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I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.
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In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.
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Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
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A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.
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Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.
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Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team.
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