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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.

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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I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.
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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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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.
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It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.
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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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Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.
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Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by
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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God
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I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
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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?
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If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?
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He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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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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