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Yann Martel

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
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
YANN MARTEL

Book Fiction Ideas
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
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 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
Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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Hinduism Jesus Muhammad
There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Animal Matter Thinking
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
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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Mind People Stories
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
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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Finest God Presence Rewards
You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Believe May Moving
We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Couple Real War
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
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

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