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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
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There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way was up, who were in the thrall of reason, that fool's gold for the bright - reminded me of the three-toed sloth and the three-toed sloth, such a beautiful example of the miracle of life, reminded me of God.
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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
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For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right.
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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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No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.
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...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something
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If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
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I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others - and I am one of those - never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end.
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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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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You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?
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That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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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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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
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Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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