Quote by Yann Martel
Every book Ive written has been a different attempt to understand

Every book Ive 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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I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land. – Yann Martel

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Faith
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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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Religion
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We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. Its fertiliser, its like living fertiliser, because youre forced on yourself. – Rupert Everett

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Show me a good and gracious loser and Ill show you a failure. – Knute Rockne

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I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I dont see a box-office failure blamed on men. – Ellen Page

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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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