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Yann Martel Biography

Yann Martel (born 25 June 1963) is a Spanish-born Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, a #1 international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. It has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and spent more than a year on the Bestseller Lists of the New York Times and The Globe and Mail, among many other bestseller lists. It was adapted to the screen and directed by Ang Lee, garnering four Oscars (the most for the event) including Best Director and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.

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I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

Faces, Good, Grace, People, Plague, Zoos

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

Life Of Pi Book, Religion, Rite, Ritual

People move because of the wear and tear of anxiety. Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn down in one day by others. Because of the impression that the future is blocked up, that *they* might do all right but not their children. Because of the feeling that nothing will change, that happiness and prosperity are possible only somewhere else.

Children, Down, Future, Gnawing, Moving, Yield

Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.

Animal, Constantly, Forever, Social Hierarchy, Supply, Unforgiving

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

Animal, Commonly, Dangerous, Man, Men, Zoos

If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?

Dream, Dreams, Ideas, Maneuver, Reality

science can only take you so far and then you have to leap

Leap, Science, Take

It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

Defeat, Fear, Life, Opponents, True

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.

Ends, Like, Moving, Reality, Uplifting

He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.

Life, Men, Show, Shy, Taught

Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this.

Good, Ideas, March, Technology, Two, Unstoppable

I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

Careful, Hang, Men, Noose, Ties

Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than an intellectual understanding of things; an alignment of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.

Joy, Feelings, Understanding, Consciousness, Founding

You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!

Believe, Death, May, Move, Moving

Don’t you bully me with your politeness!

Bully, Politeness

I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn't an exercise in storytelling and myth-making.

Exercise, Numbers, People, Say, States, United

Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.

Art, Carrying, History, Memories, Seed, Vaccines

There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.

Believe, Like, Make, Nothing, People, Unimaginable

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed meaning bolted to it. If history doesn't become story, it dies to everyone except the historian.

Emotional, Facts, Real, Truth

. . . if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.

Animal, Fall, Invaded, Reason, Zoos

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