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In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

Yann Martel

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
I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
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Language Perfection Sea Water
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Bully People Politeness
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
I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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Beautiful Mosques Sunday
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
In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don’t, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.
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Acting Book Imagination
War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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Transportation War Way
I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo.
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Add Hearing Two Unexpected
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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Book Fiction Ideas
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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Finest God Presence Rewards
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
It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
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Book Life Names Sometimes
I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It’s a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.
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Blood Boys Religious
To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing–I’m sorry, I would rather not go on.
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Father Guidance Lose Supports
The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice three.
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Christian Practice Two

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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