Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness–how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I’ve got!
YANN MARTELIf you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe?
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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.
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In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don’t, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.
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I can well imagine an athiest’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!” – and the deathbed leap of faith.
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India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.
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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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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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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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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn’t have the stomach to use the sharp edge).
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If you don’t have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
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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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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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How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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