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I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it's sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It's a very laborious process, but I love doing it.
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Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by
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I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.
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The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
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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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Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this.
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
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What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.
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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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Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
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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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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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The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?
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Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
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Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.
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