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In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

Yann Martel

It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Catching Fire Moon
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity
Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
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Company Madness Misery
Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you’ve defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
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Allies Decision Over You
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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Beens City Evil People
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
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
The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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Heart Light Shining
I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Left Memories Place
Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.
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Doing Good Happy Knows
I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo.
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Add Hearing Two Unexpected
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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Envy Reason Sticks
Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that’s why we should change it. I didn’t say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.
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Change Humanity Long Office
How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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Broken Spirit Long Water
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
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

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

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In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

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