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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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Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.
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Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.
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Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.
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If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.
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If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.
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Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
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My alarm clock during my childhood was a pride of lions.
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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by
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It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
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How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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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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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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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.
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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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