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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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There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.
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How does one say in the jargon of musicology that my sould was pulled out of me and thrown up in the air, to be tossed about by the music. How does one say that I breathed, that I existed, in harmony with the ups and downs of those notes. What kind of notes both elevate and cast down, exalt and crush?
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Yann Martel
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Born:
June 25, 1963
(age 60)
Bio:
Yann Martel is a Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, a #1 international bestseller published in more than 50 territories.
Known for:
Life of Pi (2001)
The High Mountains of Portugal (2016)
Beatrice and Virgil (2010)
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (1993)
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