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There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

Yann Martel

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

Go Hard Work Letting Writing
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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Beens City Evil People
Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.
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Astonishing Frightening Indignation
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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Fiction Mean Play Reality
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
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
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Element Games Simple
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Civilization Territory Zoos
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
Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Afrerwards God Over
Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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Hinduism Jesus Muhammad
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
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Ambition Art Skulls
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
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
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
I’m not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don’t have a mobile. I just don’t need things. I don’t like things.
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Clothes Hate Needs
War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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Transportation War Way

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