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Yann Martel
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"You can’t quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time."
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Yann Martel
Topic(s):
Death
"Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It’s something I really like. I like movies."
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Yann Martel
Topic(s):
Experience
"I love Canada. It’s a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land."
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Yann Martel
Topic(s):
Faith
"Fanatics do not have faith – they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling."
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Yann Martel
Topic(s):
Faith
"Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction."
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Yann Martel
Topic(s):
Imagination
"Most of us get our history through story."
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Yann Martel
Topic(s):
History
"I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds."
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Yann Martel
Topic(s):
Movies
"How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally – certainly with my secular background – the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence."
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Yann Martel
Topic(s):
Religion
"Every book I’ve written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want."
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Yann Martel
Topic(s):
Success
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