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My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.

Yann Martel

Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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Animal Important Training
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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Beens City Evil People
In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed.
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Broken Properly Taken Years
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
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
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
Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Company Madness Misery
It’s hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it’s hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
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Actors Potters Powerful
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
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
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
War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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Transportation War Way
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity
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 explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Left Memories Place
Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.
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Astonishing Frightening Indignation

My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.

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