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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.

Yann Martel

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Gloomy Left Suffering
If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
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Believe Life Love
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Civilization Territory Zoos
Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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Christianity Religion Rush
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
Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.
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Christianity Devotion God Religion
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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Fiction Mean Play Reality
First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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Firsts Fit Wonder
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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Life Lifeboat
Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.
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Go Hard Work Letting Writing
It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
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Book Go Important Letting Life Of Pi
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
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
I’m not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don’t have a mobile. I just don’t need things. I don’t like things.
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Clothes Hate Needs
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
YANN MARTEL

Catching Fire Moon

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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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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