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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.

Yann Martel

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
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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Mind People Stories
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
I chose the name Pi because it’s an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a “rational” understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, “irrational” yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe.
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Irrational Names Numbers Understanding
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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Artist Telling Truth Way
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
It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I’ve made none the champion.
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Champion Made Night
In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
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Air Art Stories
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
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small
I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he’s not careful.
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Careful Men Ties
You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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Hope might Thinking
Stories–individual stories, family stories, national stories–are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
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Animal Stories Together
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
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Inspirational Moving Saving
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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Described Feelings Hardly
People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.
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Connected Men People Sea

Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.

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