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There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It's extraordinarily satisfying.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.
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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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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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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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Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.
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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.
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The tennis challenger starts strong but soon loses confidence in his playing. The champion racks up the games. But in the final set, when the challenger has nothing left to lose, he becomes relaxed again, insouciant, daring. Suddenly he's playing like the devil and the champion must work hard to get those last points.
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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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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the 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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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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...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something
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Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.
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