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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?

Yann Martel

If you don’t have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
YANN MARTEL

Dream Ideas Reality
That’s what fiction is about, isn’t it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
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Essence Fiction Reality
Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they’re all we have.
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Dancing Toads Trying
I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
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Air Doubt Grateful
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
First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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Firsts Fit Wonder
How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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Invention Mother True Very
There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It’s extraordinarily satisfying.
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Fall Feels Sentence Way
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
We don’t want any invention. We want the ‘straight facts,’ as you say in English.” Isn’t telling about something–using words, English or Japanese–already something of an invention? Isn’t just looking upon this world already something of an invention?
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Country Invention Language People Some Something
For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.
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End Fear Memories Real
He’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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Men Shy Taught
A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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Inspirational Life Principles
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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Mind People Stories
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
I was giving up. I would have given up – if a voice hadn’t made itself heard in my heart. The voice said “I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare.
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Giving Hard Heart Up Work

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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