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Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.

Yann Martel

It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
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Go Heart Letting Otherwise Words
The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.
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Animal Mind Thinking
There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul.
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Generations Seeing Shock Soul
Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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Hinduism Jesus Muhammad
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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Communication Novelists Pages
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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Book Fiction Ideas
You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Believe May Moving
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally
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
We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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Born Catholic Introducing
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Civilization Territory 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
It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
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Book Life Names Sometimes
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.
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Heart Nerves Pain
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
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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Mind People Stories

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