There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe. ✨ Yann M…

Yann Martel
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There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe. ✨ Yann Martel (2010). Beatrice & Virgil, p.30, Knopf Canada
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Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away. ✨ Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). Life of Pi (Il … ▶
As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound. ✨ Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard. ✨ Yann Martel (2009). Life of Pi, p.110, Vintage Canada

There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe. ✨ Yann Martel (2010). Beatrice & Virgil, p.30, Knopf Canada

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