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  • Yann Martel Quote - The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
  • Yann Martel Quote - The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
  • Yann Martel Quote - The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
  • Yann Martel Quote - The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
  • Yann Martel Quote - The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
  • Yann Martel Quote - 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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The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

Yann Martel

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    We don’t want any invention. We want the ‘straight facts,’ as you say in English.” Isn’t telling about something–using words, English or Japanese–already something of an invention? Isn’t just looking upon this world already something of an invention?

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    I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn’t have the stomach to use the sharp edge).

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    One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy.

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    I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

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    Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them — and then they leap.

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    Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.

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    If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers.

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    It’s hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it’s hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.

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

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    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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    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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    Christianity is a religion in a rush.

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    There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul.

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    Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.

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    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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    Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.

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