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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe?

Yann Martel

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
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Far Leap Science
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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Boredom Opposites Swings
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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Baby Cancer Death Life
In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don’t, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.
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Acting Book Imagination
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Gloomy Left Suffering
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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Finest God Presence Rewards
In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have.
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Different Minority Notion Project
I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo.
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Add Hearing Two Unexpected
Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.
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Go Hard Work Letting Writing
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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Grace People Zoos
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally
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
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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Artist Telling Truth Way
I chose the name Pi because it’s an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a “rational” understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, “irrational” yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe.
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Irrational Names Numbers Understanding
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Bully People Politeness

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe?

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