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Peter has learned the difficult animal skill of doing nothing. He's learned to unshackle himself of the race of time and contemplate time itself. [..] It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.
— Yann Martel The High Mountains of Portugal
Tags: time, mindfulness

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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.
— Yann Martel
Tags: some, play, reality, imagination
I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
— Yann Martel
Tags: animals, help, like, ideas
I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
— Yann Martel
Tags: political, faith, beautiful, love
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
— Yann Martel
Tags: hard, sometimes, great, work
It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.
— Yann Martel
Tags: political, fashion, tired, long
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