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You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

~Yann Martel

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I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.

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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

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May books spread the world over!

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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.

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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?

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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.

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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

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Cinema is incredibly concise.

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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: June 25th, 1963

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