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  • Yann Martel Quote - For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.
  • Yann Martel Quote - For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.
  • Yann Martel Quote - For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.
  • Yann Martel Quote - For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.
  • Yann Martel Quote - For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.
  • Yann Martel Quote - For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.
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For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

    When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.

    Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it’s true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths. Download This Image

    Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it’s true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality – you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.

    Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality – you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God… These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.

    There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God… These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Download This Image

    It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion – and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction. Download This Image

    Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion – and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Christianity is a religion in a rush.

    Christianity is a religion in a rush.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. Download This Image

    I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - The dorado did the most extraordinary thing as it died: it began to flash all kinds of colours in rapid succession. Blue, green, red, gold, and violet flickered and shimmered neon-like on its surface as it struggled. I felt I was beating a rainbow to death. Download This Image

    The dorado did the most extraordinary thing as it died: it began to flash all kinds of colours in rapid succession. Blue, green, red, gold, and violet flickered and shimmered neon-like on its surface as it struggled. I felt I was beating a rainbow to death.

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