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  • Yann Martel Quote - That’s what fiction is about, isn’t it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence? Download This Image
  • Yann Martel Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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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  5. brown
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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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts. Download This Image

    I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans. Download This Image

    Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - science can only take you so far and then you have to leap Download This Image

    science can only take you so far and then you have to leap

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

    I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.

    For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud. Download This Image

    Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story? Download This Image

    The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story?

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.

    Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them — and then they leap.

    Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them — and then they leap.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl’s kiss on your cheek.

    I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl’s kiss on your cheek.

    YANN MARTEL
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.

    Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.

    YANN MARTEL
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It’s a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.

    I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It’s a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.

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