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You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

Yann Martel

My greatest wish – other than salvation – was to have a book.
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Book Salvation Wish
Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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Christianity Religion Rush
I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it’s sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It’s a very laborious process, but I love doing it.
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Laborious Process Sometimes Way Writing
And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights and all the moons. To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle.
YANN MARTEL

Blue Castaway Moon Night
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
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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Life Lifeboat
Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion – and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
YANN MARTEL

Art Book Inspired
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity
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 suffering left me sad and gloomy.
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Gloomy Left Suffering
It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I’ve made none the champion.
YANN MARTEL

Champion Made Night
You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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Cheer Graduation Inspiring
You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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Believe May Moving
Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
YANN MARTEL

Defend Matter Small
I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo.
YANN MARTEL

Add Hearing Two Unexpected
I ask you, is it the fig tree’s fault that it’s not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?
YANN MARTEL

Faults Kind Tree

You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

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