Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming ones life away.
Yann Martel
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If literature does one thing it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues dont feel the pain of others because they havent imaginatively got under their skins.
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It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspicious
of swimmers just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain
climbers.
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