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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.

Yann Martel

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
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
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
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Catching Fire Moon
My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Grateful Gratitude Ocean
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
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
I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
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Illusion Months Week
I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.
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Dream Hands Mistake
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small
I ask you, is it the fig tree’s fault that it’s not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?
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Faults Kind Tree
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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Artist Telling Truth Way
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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Beens City Evil People
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
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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Dream Ideas Reality
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

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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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