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It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.

Yann Martel

My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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Book Salvation Wish
If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
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Believe Life Love
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
India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.
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Country Imagination Love Possible
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
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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Fiction Mean Play Reality
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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Animal Important Training
Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality – you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.
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Country Reading Reality
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally
There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God… These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.
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Defend Failing People Realizing
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Animals Men 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
Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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Greater Happiness Salvation
I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
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Language Perfection Sea Water
You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Believe May Moving
Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.
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Doing Good Happy Knows

It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.

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