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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.

Yann Martel

India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.
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Country Imagination Love Possible
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
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
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Element Games Simple
Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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Christianity Religion Rush
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
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
I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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Beautiful Mosques Sunday
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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Beens City Evil People
…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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Divine Everything Trace
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
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Far Leap Science
Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it’s a sad view.
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Together Views Want
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
It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I’ve made none the champion.
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Champion Made Night
It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Amazing Wall Willpower

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