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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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It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.
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Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
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We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
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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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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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We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?
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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.
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Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.
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I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.
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To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.
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You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!
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Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.
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