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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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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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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
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Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
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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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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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Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation in frenzy.
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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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Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.
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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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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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Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?
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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.
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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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