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

Yann Martel

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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Movie Love Thinking
To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing–I’m sorry, I would rather not go on.
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Father Guidance Lose Supports
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Fiction Genre Writing
First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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Firsts Fit Wonder
When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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Pain Sad Unbearable
It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
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Go Heart Letting Otherwise Words
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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Finest God Presence Rewards
It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Amazing Wall Willpower
The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story?
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Life Travel Understanding
The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice three.
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Christian Practice Two
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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Book Fiction Ideas
There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God… These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.
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Defend Failing People Realizing
I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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Approach Killer Known
Stories–individual stories, family stories, national stories–are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
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Animal Stories Together
Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Afrerwards God Over
War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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Transportation War Way

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