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We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

Yann Martel

It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Amazing Wall Willpower
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
You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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Cheer Graduation Inspiring
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
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Bully People Politeness
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 explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Left Memories Place
Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.
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Astonishing Frightening Indignation
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love – but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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Faith Go God Letting Opening Up
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
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
Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that’s creation in frenzy.
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Christianity Looks World
I ask you, is it the fig tree’s fault that it’s not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?
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Faults Kind Tree
It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I’ve made none the champion.
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Champion Made Night
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
There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Animal Matter Thinking

We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

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