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I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo.

Yann Martel

I can’t live for more than four years outside of Canada. I’m Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
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Country Four People Years
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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Communication Novelists Pages
We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Couple Real War
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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Beens City Evil People
We think we live in a global village. We don’t. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
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Beautiful Garden Thinking
I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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Believe God Stories
Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.
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Doing Good Happy Knows
He’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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Men Shy Taught
I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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Approach Killer Known
Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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Hinduism Jesus Muhammad
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Animals Men Zoos
That’s what fiction is about, isn’t it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
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Essence Fiction Reality
Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Afrerwards God Over
Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them — and then they leap.
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Atheist Brother Legs
I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
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Grace People Zoos
The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story?
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Life Travel Understanding

I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo.

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I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo.

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