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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.

Yann Martel

To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches.
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Brother Mother Sorry
My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Grateful Gratitude Ocean
I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.
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Beautiful Mosques Sunday
Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
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Dream Goodbye Heart
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
Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart.
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Heart Sea Wind
Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they’re all we have.
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Dancing Toads Trying
We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Couple Real War
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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Artist Telling Truth Way
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Defend Matter Small
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
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
I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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Left Memories Place
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
Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Afrerwards God Over
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

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