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Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.
Yann Martel
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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
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I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.
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Most of us get our history through story.
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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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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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Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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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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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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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
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I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.
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In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
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