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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.

Yann Martel

It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Amazing Wall Willpower
In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
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Air Art Stories
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
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
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
Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Company Madness Misery
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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Book Cinema Different
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it’s like to be a woman doesn’t strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.
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Crazy Explore Men Sex
I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Left Memories Place
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
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Ambition Art Skulls
Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness–how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I’ve got!
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Tiny Vastness Views
I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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Beating Felt Rainbow
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
I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others – and I am one of those – never give up. We fight and fight and fight.
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Fighting Give Up Loss
As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
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Movie Love 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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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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