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Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

Yann Martel

Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
YANN MARTEL

Defend Matter Small
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
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
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity
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
The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.
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Boredom Opposites Swings
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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Life Lifeboat
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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Beens City Evil People
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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Book Cinema Different
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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Artist Telling Truth Way
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
Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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Christianity Religion Rush
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
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
YANN MARTEL

Envy Reason Sticks
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
YANN MARTEL

Far Leap Science

Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

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