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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.

Yann Martel

I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Left Memories Place
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Civilization Territory Zoos
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
We think we live in a global village. We don’t. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
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Beautiful Garden Thinking
We don’t want any invention. We want the ‘straight facts,’ as you say in English.” Isn’t telling about something–using words, English or Japanese–already something of an invention? Isn’t just looking upon this world already something of an invention?
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Country Invention Language People Some Something
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
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Inspirational Moving Saving
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Catching Fire Moon
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
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
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 spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.
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Earth Expression Grace
People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.
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Connected Men People Sea
I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
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Illusion Months Week
Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that’s creation in frenzy.
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Christianity Looks World
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
YANN MARTEL

Baby Cancer Death Life
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

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.

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