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I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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Finest God Presence Rewards
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Bully People Politeness
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
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 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
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Animals Men Zoos
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
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
You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.
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Joy Long Measure Pain
My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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Book Salvation Wish
Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.
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Art Book Hate InterAction
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Delicious Mockery.Urine
You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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Hope might Thinking
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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Book Cinema Different
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

I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

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