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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Novelist
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Emotions
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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
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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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I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.
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I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
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All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
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There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.
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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
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Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
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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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My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered.
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Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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