I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
YANN MARTELI 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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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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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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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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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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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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There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul.
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My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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