"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."
-Yann Martel
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"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.“
-Yann Martel
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"Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling."
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"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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"I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds."
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"I'm still learning my craft."
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"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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"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."
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"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."
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"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
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"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
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"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
-Ambrose Bierce
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