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Yann Martel

It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Amazing Wall Willpower
Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that’s creation in frenzy.
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Christianity Looks World
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small
We don’t want any invention. We want the ‘straight facts,’ as you say in English.” Isn’t telling about something–using words, English or Japanese–already something of an invention? Isn’t just looking upon this world already something of an invention?
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Country Invention Language People Some Something
We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Couple Real War
I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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Beating Felt Rainbow
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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Described Feelings Hardly
I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn’t have the stomach to use the sharp edge).
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Blue Hands Jobs Stomach Vigorously
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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Animal Important Training
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
You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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Cheer Graduation Inspiring
Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
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Dream Goodbye Heart
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Delicious Mockery.Urine
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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Go Hard Work Letting Writing
My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Grateful Gratitude Ocean
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Catching Fire Moon

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