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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.

Yann Martel

We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally
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
I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.
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Earth Expression Grace
Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
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Dramatic Special Unlimited
War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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Transportation War Way
In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed.
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Broken Properly Taken Years
…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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Divine Everything Trace
Stories–individual stories, family stories, national stories–are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
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Animal Stories Together
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.
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Animals Men Zoos
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
Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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Greater Happiness Salvation
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
Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.
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Journey Saving Suffering
People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.
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Connected Men People Sea
When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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Pain Sad Unbearable
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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Finest God Presence Rewards

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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