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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
— Yann Martel
First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
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Because to suffer and do nothing is to be nothing, while to suffer and do something is to become someone.
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Most of us get our history through story.
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I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.
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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.
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Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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If there is a change, it is usually for the lesser rather than the greater; many people seem to lose God along life's way.
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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the senile, lecherous expression of a camel.
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When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
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May books spread the world over!
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Proves to be a devastating hunter. Hyenas attack
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I went to temple at crowded times when Brahmins were too distracted to come between me and God.
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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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Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?
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It's amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer.
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communion with God in the middle of bags of flour
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There people fail to realise that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. - Pi Patel in Life of Pi— Yann Martel
We must do the same with death in our lives: resolve it, give it meaning, put it into context, however hard that might be.
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Religion is more than rite and ritual.
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wild are, in practice,
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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Reality escapes us. It's beyond description, even a simple pear. Time eats everything.
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I must go the washroom. I've shaken a lot of hands.
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You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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An epic simplicity
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Now he realized that this matter of faith was either radically to be taken seriously or radically not to be taken seriously.
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Mamaji remembered, Father dreamed.
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I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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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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Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.
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This story has a happy ending.
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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.
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Don't you bully me with your politeness!
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Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts.
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Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater imperative.
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At last I managed to haul it aboard. It was over three feet long. The bucket was useless. It would fit the dorado like a hat.
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Then normal sank.
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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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And I survived because I made a point of forgetting.
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Religion?" Mr Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.
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To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.
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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
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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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But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.
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Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error.
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I am magical: I can bleed for five days and not die.
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When animals fight, it is with the intent to kill and with the understanding that they may be killed.
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In the wild, animals stick to the same paths for the same pressing reasons, season after season.
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The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists.
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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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...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.
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