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People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.

Yann Martel

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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Book Cinema Different
It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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Book Go Important Letting Life Of Pi
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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Life Lifeboat
Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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Christianity Religion Rush
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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Artist Telling Truth Way
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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Book Salvation Wish
Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Company Madness Misery
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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Communication Novelists Pages
There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God… These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.
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Defend Failing People Realizing
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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Baby Cancer Death Life
If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers.
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Animal City Crocodile Fall Ostriches
Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it’s a very limited one. And by and large, it isn’t helpful.
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Division Facts Fiction Helpful Large
Once you’ve been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.
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Entirely Leave Natural Once Pleasing
I can well imagine an athiest’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!” – and the deathbed leap of faith.
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Deathbed Light Self White
I can’t live for more than four years outside of Canada. I’m Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
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Country Four People Years

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