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I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.

Yann Martel

It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Catching Fire Moon
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Fiction Genre Writing
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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Baby Cancer Death Life
I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl’s kiss on your cheek.
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Book Condemnation Girl Powerful
The dorado did the most extraordinary thing as it died: it began to flash all kinds of colours in rapid succession. Blue, green, red, gold, and violet flickered and shimmered neon-like on its surface as it struggled. I felt I was beating a rainbow to death.
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Began Extraordinary Kinds Shimmered Succession
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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Book Fiction Ideas
For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.
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End Fear Memories Real
Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion – and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
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Art Book Inspired
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
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Beautiful Jealous Life
You can get used to anything – haven’t I already said that? Isn’t that what all survivors say?
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Said Survivor Used
It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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Book Go Important Letting Life Of Pi
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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Described Feelings Hardly
You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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Joy Long Measure Pain
As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
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Movie Love Thinking
Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality – you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.
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Country Reading Reality

I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.

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