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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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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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It's amazing how willpower can build walls.
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It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
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How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.
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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
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To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.
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Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
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When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
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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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I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.
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I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.
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Religion is more than rite and ritual.
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You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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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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Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.
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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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Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
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