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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.

Yann Martel

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.
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Dream Hands Survival
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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Art Book Inspired
Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that’s why we should change it. I didn’t say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
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Change Humanity Long Office
In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
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Air Art Stories
Music is a bird’s answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
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Answers Bird Mind
Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Company Madness Misery
Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.
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Doing Good Happy Knows
I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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Beautiful Mosques Sunday
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
There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It’s extraordinarily satisfying.
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Fall Feels Sentence Way
You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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Joy Long Measure Pain
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.
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Heart Nerves Pain
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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Baby Cancer Death Life
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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Inspirational Life Principles
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

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