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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

Yann Martel

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
In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have.
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Different Minority Notion Project
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
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
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
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Gloomy Left Suffering
A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal – of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds of Tanzania – but a good zoo is a decent, acceptable place.
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Animal Course Jail Tanzania Zoos
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
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
Once you’ve been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.
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Entirely Leave Natural Once Pleasing
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
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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Animal Important Training
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Delicious Mockery.Urine
I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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Believe God Stories
You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Believe May Moving
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

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

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