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Yann Martel

I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.
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Dream Hands Mistake
We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Couple Real War
Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it’s a sad view.
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Together Views Want
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe?
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Belief Believe Book Life
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
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Bully People Politeness
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Catching Fire Moon
I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster.
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Crackle Faster Forest Girl Jealous Music Sweet
It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I’ve made none the champion.
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Champion Made Night
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
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
Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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Christianity Religion Rush
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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Book Fiction Ideas
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
There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Animal Matter Thinking
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Civilization Territory Zoos

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