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It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.

Yann Martel

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
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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Communication Novelists Pages
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Gloomy Left Suffering
He’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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Men Shy Taught
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
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
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
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
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
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Inspirational Moving Saving
My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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Book Salvation Wish
I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Left Memories Place
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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Baby Cancer Death Life
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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Allies Decision Over You
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
Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Company Madness Misery

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