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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.

Yann Martel

Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.
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Art Book Hate InterAction
I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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Believe God Stories
My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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Book Salvation Wish
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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Grace People Zoos
He’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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Men Shy Taught
First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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Firsts Fit Wonder
I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others – and I am one of those – never give up. We fight and fight and fight.
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Fighting Give Up Loss
War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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Transportation War Way
Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
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Dramatic Special Unlimited
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Far Leap Science
I was giving up. I would have given up – if a voice hadn’t made itself heard in my heart. The voice said “I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare.
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Giving Hard Heart Up Work
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
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
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Go Heart Letting Otherwise Words
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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Envy Reason Sticks
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

Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.

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