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Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.

Yann Martel

I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn’t have the stomach to use the sharp edge).
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Blue Hands Jobs Stomach Vigorously
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity
I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
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Air Doubt Grateful
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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Animal Important Training
The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it’s like to be a woman doesn’t strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.
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Crazy Explore Men Sex
I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It’s a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.
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Blood Boys Religious
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Afrerwards God Over
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
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small
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
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Animals Men Zoos
I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo.
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Add Hearing Two Unexpected
Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
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Beats Reason Risk
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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Grace People Zoos
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

Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.

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