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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they’re all we have.

Yann Martel

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love – but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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Faith Go God Letting Opening Up
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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Delicious Mockery.Urine
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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Beens City Evil People
You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.
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Hope might Thinking
My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Gloomy Left Suffering
My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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Described Feelings Hardly
I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me.
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Dream Hands Mistake
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
It’s hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it’s hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
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Actors Potters Powerful
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
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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Baby Cancer Death Life
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
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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Far Leap Science
To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing–I’m sorry, I would rather not go on.
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Father Guidance Lose Supports
I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it’s sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It’s a very laborious process, but I love doing it.
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Laborious Process Sometimes Way Writing
Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion – and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
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Art Book Inspired

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