My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Yann Martel
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Beatrice and Virgil
Life of Pi
Self
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
The High Mountains of Portugal
What is Stephen Harper Reading?: Yann Martel's Recommended Reading for a Prime Minister and Book Lovers of All Stripes
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There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious
It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspiciousof swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountainclimbers.
The holy word is story, and story is the holy word.
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can get.
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.