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It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.

Yann Martel

We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally
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
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small
I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
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Illusion Months Week
…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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Divine Everything Trace
I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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Approach Killer Known
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Gloomy Left Suffering
Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you’ve defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
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Allies Decision Over You
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity
In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed.
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Broken Properly Taken Years
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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Life Lifeboat
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Fiction Genre Writing
I would have like PI to be a Jew, too, to practice Judaism, but there are two religions that are explicitly incompatible: Christianity and Judaism. Where one begins, the other ends, according to Christians, and where one endures, the other strays, according to Jews.
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Christians Incompatible Practice Religions
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
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

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