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You can get used to anything – haven’t I already said that? Isn’t that what all survivors say?

Yann Martel

You can get used to anything – haven’t I already said that? Isn’t that what all survivors say?
YANN MARTEL

Said Survivor Used
Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you’ve defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
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Allies Decision Over You
Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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Christianity Religion Rush
There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul.
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Generations Seeing Shock Soul
Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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Hinduism Jesus Muhammad
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Fiction Genre Writing
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
Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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Greater Happiness Salvation
India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.
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Country Imagination Love Possible
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
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Inspirational Moving Saving
Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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Despair Expression Light
Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
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Beats Reason Risk
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Far Leap Science
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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Described Feelings Hardly
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
My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
YANN MARTEL

Grateful Gratitude Ocean

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