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That’s what fiction is about, isn’t it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?

Yann Martel

I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Left Memories Place
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
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
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
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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Artist Telling Truth Way
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Delicious Mockery.Urine
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe?
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Belief Believe Book Life
Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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Greater Happiness Salvation
To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing–I’m sorry, I would rather not go on.
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Father Guidance Lose Supports
Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.
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Dream Hands Survival
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
To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches.
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Brother Mother Sorry
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
As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
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Movie Love Thinking
Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
YANN MARTEL

Despair Expression Light

That’s what fiction is about, isn’t it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?

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