I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
YANN MARTELCan there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
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My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.
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I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.
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I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
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Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.
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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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Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
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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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I would have like PI to be a Jew, too, to practice Judaism, but there are two religions that are explicitly incompatible: Christianity and Judaism. Where one begins, the other ends, according to Christians, and where one endures, the other strays, according to Jews.
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That’s what fiction is about, isn’t it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?
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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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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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