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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?

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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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.
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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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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true.’ I just want to love God.
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There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall of reason, that fool's gold for the bright - reminded me of the three-toed sloth and the three-toed sloth, such a beautiful example of the miracle of life, reminded me of God.
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We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it's a sad view.
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If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.
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Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
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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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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 is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's a good country to write from because in many ways Canada is the world.
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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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There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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