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Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you’ve defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.

Yann Martel

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.
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Dark Moon Stars
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Delicious Mockery.Urine
It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
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Book Life Names Sometimes
How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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Invention Mother True Very
Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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Despair Expression Light
We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Couple Real War
I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster.
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Crackle Faster Forest Girl Jealous Music Sweet
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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Mind People Stories
It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
YANN MARTEL

Book Go Important Letting Life Of Pi
The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it’s like to be a woman doesn’t strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.
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Crazy Explore Men Sex
I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn’t have the stomach to use the sharp edge).
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Blue Hands Jobs Stomach Vigorously
Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.
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Go Hard Work Letting Writing
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Far Leap Science
My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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Book Salvation Wish
There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It’s extraordinarily satisfying.
YANN MARTEL

Fall Feels Sentence Way
I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Left Memories Place

Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you’ve defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.

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Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you’ve defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.

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