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You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

Yann Martel

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
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Beautiful Jealous Life
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
We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Couple Real War
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Civilization Territory Zoos
Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Company Madness Misery
First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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Firsts Fit Wonder
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
As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
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Movie Love Thinking
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
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Animal Important Training
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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Finest God Presence Rewards
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Delicious Mockery.Urine
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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Artist Telling Truth Way
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
…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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Divine Everything Trace
It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I’ve made none the champion.
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Champion Made Night
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity

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