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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.

Yann Martel

Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.
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Art Book Hate InterAction
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
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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Envy Reason Sticks
Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
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Dramatic Special Unlimited
War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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Transportation War Way
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
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
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Beautiful Jealous Life
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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Artist Telling Truth Way
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
Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.
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Christianity Devotion God Religion
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
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 find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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Mind People Stories
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
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small

My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.

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