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

Yann Martel

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
Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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Hinduism Jesus Muhammad
I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
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Air Doubt Grateful
If you don’t have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
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Dream Ideas Reality
How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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Invention Mother True Very
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
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
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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Christian Practice Two
You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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Hope might Thinking
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Fiction Genre Writing
I can’t live for more than four years outside of Canada. I’m Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
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Country Four People Years
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
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Gloomy Left Suffering
You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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Joy Long Measure Pain
A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal – of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds of Tanzania – but a good zoo is a decent, acceptable place.
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Animal Course Jail Tanzania Zoos
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

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

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