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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

Yann Martel

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
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Far Leap Science
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
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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Book Salvation Wish
I can’t live for more than four years outside of Canada. I’m Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
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Country Four People Years
At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.
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Moments Thinking Wonder
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Animals Men Zoos
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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Boredom Opposites Swings
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
Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they’re all we have.
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Dancing Toads Trying
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe?
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Belief Believe Book Life
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
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
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Catching Fire Moon
We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Couple Real War

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