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That’s what fiction is about, isn’t it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?

Yann Martel

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
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Animals Men Zoos
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
I chose the name Pi because it’s an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a “rational” understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, “irrational” yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe.
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Irrational Names Numbers Understanding
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
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
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Gloomy Left Suffering
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Catching Fire Moon
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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Fiction Mean Play Reality
When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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Pain Sad Unbearable
I ask you, is it the fig tree’s fault that it’s not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?
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Faults Kind Tree
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
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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Finest God Presence Rewards
My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Grateful Gratitude Ocean
Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.
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Christianity Devotion God Religion
How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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Broken Spirit Long Water

That’s what fiction is about, isn’t it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?

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