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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.

Yann Martel

It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Amazing Wall Willpower
It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
YANN MARTEL

Book Go Important Letting Life Of Pi
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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Doing Good Happy Knows
As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
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Movie Love Thinking
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
Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that’s creation in frenzy.
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Christianity Looks World
Music is a bird’s answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
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Answers Bird Mind
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
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
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
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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Faults Kind Tree
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 explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Left Memories Place
To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches.
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Brother Mother Sorry
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe?
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Belief Believe Book Life
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

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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