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Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.

Yann Martel

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

Mind People Stories
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
YANN MARTEL

Finest God Presence Rewards
In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don’t, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.
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Acting Book Imagination
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.
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Dream Hands Survival
Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
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Dramatic Special Unlimited
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
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Catching Fire Moon
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small
I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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Believe God Stories
For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.
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End Fear Memories Real
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
Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
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Beats Reason Risk
You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Believe May Moving
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Delicious Mockery.Urine
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally
The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
YANN MARTEL

Dark Moon Stars

Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.

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