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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

Yann Martel

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
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
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
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
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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Envy Reason Sticks
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
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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Hinduism Jesus Muhammad
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Delicious Mockery.Urine
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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Baby Cancer Death Life
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Animals Men Zoos
My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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Book Salvation Wish
I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others – and I am one of those – never give up. We fight and fight and fight.
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Fighting Give Up Loss
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
I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he’s not careful.
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Careful Men Ties
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

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

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