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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

Yann Martel

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
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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Life Lifeboat
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 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
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.
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Heart Nerves Pain
To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches.
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Brother Mother Sorry
War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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Transportation War Way
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
How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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Broken Spirit Long Water
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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Greater Happiness Salvation
My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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Book Salvation Wish
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
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity
I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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Beating Felt Rainbow
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

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