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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.

Yann Martel

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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Mind People Stories
Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Afrerwards God Over
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
People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.
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Connected Men People Sea
My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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Book Salvation Wish
It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
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Book Life Names Sometimes
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 everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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Divine Everything Trace
I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving.
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Brother Children Moving Presence
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.
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Fiction Mean Play Reality
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Far Leap Science
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Bully People Politeness
In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed.
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Broken Properly Taken Years
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Delicious Mockery.Urine
I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Left Memories Place
In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
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Air Art Stories

Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.

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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.

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