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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.

Yann Martel

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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Mind People Stories
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Delicious Mockery.Urine
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
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Bully People Politeness
I’m not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don’t have a mobile. I just don’t need things. I don’t like things.
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Clothes Hate Needs
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
I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl’s kiss on your cheek.
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Book Condemnation Girl Powerful
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
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Element Games Simple
The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story?
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Life Travel Understanding
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Animals Men Zoos
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
Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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Hinduism Jesus Muhammad
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
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
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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Animal Important Training
People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.
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Connected Men People Sea

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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