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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.

Yann Martel

It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Amazing Wall Willpower
I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Left Memories Place
I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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Approach Killer Known
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
When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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Pain Sad Unbearable
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
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 can’t live for more than four years outside of Canada. I’m Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
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Country Four People Years
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Far Leap Science
I would have like PI to be a Jew, too, to practice Judaism, but there are two religions that are explicitly incompatible: Christianity and Judaism. Where one begins, the other ends, according to Christians, and where one endures, the other strays, according to Jews.
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Christians Incompatible Practice Religions
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
We think we live in a global village. We don’t. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
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Beautiful Garden Thinking
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love – but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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Faith Go God Letting Opening Up
I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he’s not careful.
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Careful Men Ties
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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Mind People Stories
Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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Christianity Religion Rush

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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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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