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Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.

Yann Martel

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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I chose the name Pi because it's an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a rational understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, irrational yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe.
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We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
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[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.
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We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?
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I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.
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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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A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.
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Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Most people take who they are, naturally, as a given, and they're interested in the sexual other, but not in being the sexual other. Most men are interested in women - whether sexually or not is not the question - but they don't necessarily want to be a woman.
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My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.
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Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.
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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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A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
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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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Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Most of us get our history through story.
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall of reason, that fool's gold for the bright - reminded me of the three-toed sloth and the three-toed sloth, such a beautiful example of the miracle of life, reminded me of God.
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There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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