Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
YANN MARTELAll living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
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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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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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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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Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.
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I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that’s why we should change it. I didn’t say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
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I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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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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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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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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If you don’t have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
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