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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

Yann Martel

How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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Broken Spirit Long Water
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
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
India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.
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Country Imagination Love Possible
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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Envy Reason Sticks
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 was giving up. I would have given up – if a voice hadn’t made itself heard in my heart. The voice said “I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare.
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Giving Hard Heart Up Work
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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Boredom Opposites Swings
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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Finest God Presence Rewards
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
There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God… These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.
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Defend Failing People Realizing
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 Book Hate InterAction
We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Couple Real War
The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
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Dark Moon Stars
I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
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Illusion Months Week

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

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