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As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
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Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
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Religion? Mr Kumar grinned broadly. I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
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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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The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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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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My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.
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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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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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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.
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