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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

Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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Greater Happiness Salvation
I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving.
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Brother Children Moving Presence
It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
YANN MARTEL

Book Life Names Sometimes
You can get used to anything – haven’t I already said that? Isn’t that what all survivors say?
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Said Survivor Used
Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it’s a very limited one. And by and large, it isn’t helpful.
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Division Facts Fiction Helpful Large
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
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
There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Animal Matter Thinking
Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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Despair Expression Light
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Fiction Genre Writing
My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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Book Salvation Wish
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
You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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Cheer Graduation Inspiring
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
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
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Mind People Stories
Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.
YANN MARTEL

Doing Good Happy Knows

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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