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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

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
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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Envy Reason Sticks
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
If you don’t have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
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Dream Ideas Reality
Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Afrerwards God Over
Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it’s a very limited one. And by and large, it isn’t helpful.
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Division Facts Fiction Helpful Large
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
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
My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Grateful Gratitude Ocean
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Civilization Territory Zoos
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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Animal Important Training
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
I can well imagine an athiest’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!” – and the deathbed leap of faith.
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Deathbed Light Self White
I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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Beating Felt Rainbow
Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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Christianity Religion Rush
Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion – and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
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Art Book Inspired

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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