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It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.

Yann Martel

If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
YANN MARTEL

Fiction Genre Writing
A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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Inspirational Life Principles
Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Afrerwards God Over
It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
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Go Heart Letting Otherwise Words
You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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Hope might Thinking
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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Mind People Stories
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
Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
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Dramatic Special Unlimited
The world isn’t just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn’t that make life a story?
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Life Travel Understanding
The dorado did the most extraordinary thing as it died: it began to flash all kinds of colours in rapid succession. Blue, green, red, gold, and violet flickered and shimmered neon-like on its surface as it struggled. I felt I was beating a rainbow to death.
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Began Extraordinary Kinds Shimmered Succession
I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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Beautiful Mosques Sunday
Stories–individual stories, family stories, national stories–are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
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Animal Stories Together
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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Described Feelings Hardly
The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
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Dark Moon Stars
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity
My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Grateful Gratitude Ocean

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