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The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice three.

Yann Martel

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
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
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
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
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
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally
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
Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they’re all we have.
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Dancing Toads Trying
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
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
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
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
I would have like PI to be a Jew, too, to practice Judaism, but there are two religions that are explicitly incompatible: Christianity and Judaism. Where one begins, the other ends, according to Christians, and where one endures, the other strays, according to Jews.
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Christians Incompatible Practice Religions
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
I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.
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Earth Expression Grace

The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice three.

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The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice three.

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