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He’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.

Yann Martel

I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.
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Heart Nerves Pain
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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Blue Hands Jobs Stomach Vigorously
Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
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Beats Reason Risk
If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
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Believe Life Love
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
Stories–individual stories, family stories, national stories–are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
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Animal Stories Together
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
I can well imagine an athiest’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!” – and the deathbed leap of faith.
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Deathbed Light Self White
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Far Leap Science
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
First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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Firsts Fit Wonder
He’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
YANN MARTEL

Men Shy Taught
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
We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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Born Catholic Introducing
Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it’s true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
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Emotional Fiction Real

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