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I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
Yann Martel
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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
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You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!
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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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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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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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In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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