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In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

Yann Martel

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
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
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Animals Men Zoos
The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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Heart Light Shining
People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.
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Connected Men People Sea
Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that’s why we should change it. I didn’t say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
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Change Humanity Long Office
There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul.
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Generations Seeing Shock Soul
You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Believe May Moving
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
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Ambition Art Skulls
We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Couple Real War
I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others – and I am one of those – never give up. We fight and fight and fight.
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Fighting Give Up Loss
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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Artist Telling Truth Way
Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.
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Journey Saving Suffering
I was giving up. I would have given up – if a voice hadn’t made itself heard in my heart. The voice said “I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare.
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Giving Hard Heart Up Work
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
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

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