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How Do You Keep Life From Becoming Taxidermy?

Imagination is better than knowledge and more important than knowledge. Living the moment as the moment wants to be is wisdom and is more important than any of the other things. Preconceiving so much leads to living with a piece of taxidermy instead of a living animal. Life becomes taxidermy. Life is so alive and is not domesticated. Life is what life wants to be. The same principle applies to a movie because a movie tells a person what a movie wants to be.

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