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.
YANN MARTELI 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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Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.
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I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.
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It’s hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it’s hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
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It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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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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We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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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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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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I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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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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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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