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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.

Yann Martel

For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.
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End Fear Memories Real
It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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Amazing Wall Willpower
I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving.
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Brother Children Moving Presence
In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
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Air Art Stories
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Civilization Territory Zoos
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
Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Company Madness Misery
He’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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Men Shy Taught
Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.
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Go Hard Work Letting Writing
You can get used to anything – haven’t I already said that? Isn’t that what all survivors say?
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Said Survivor Used
I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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Approach Killer Known
I ask you, is it the fig tree’s fault that it’s not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?
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Faults Kind Tree
I’m not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don’t have a mobile. I just don’t need things. I don’t like things.
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Clothes Hate Needs
I chose the name Pi because it’s an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a “rational” understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, “irrational” yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe.
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Irrational Names Numbers Understanding
You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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Cheer Graduation Inspiring
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Far Leap Science

Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.

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