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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.

Yann Martel

I can’t live for more than four years outside of Canada. I’m Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
YANN MARTEL

Country Four People Years
I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.
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Earth Expression Grace
We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Couple Real War
The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it’s like to be a woman doesn’t strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.
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Crazy Explore Men Sex
I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
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Grace People Zoos
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Catching Fire Moon
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Delicious Mockery.Urine
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small
Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
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Dream Goodbye Heart
You can get used to anything – haven’t I already said that? Isn’t that what all survivors say?
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Said Survivor Used
Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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Hinduism Jesus Muhammad
You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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Cheer Graduation Inspiring
I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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Believe God Stories
People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.
YANN MARTEL

Connected Men People Sea
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
YANN MARTEL

Gloomy Left Suffering

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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