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The holy word is story, and story is the holy word.

The holy word is story, and story is the holy word.
– Yann Martel

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  1. My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all. – Yann Martel
  2. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
  3. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
  4. To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken. – Yann Martel
  5. I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. – Yann Martel
  6. I knew very little about the religion. [Christianity] It had a reputation for few gods and great violence. But good schools. – Yann Martel
  7. Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error. – Yann Martel
  8. Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. – Yann Martel
  9. I suppose in the end the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye. – Yann Martel
  10. We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more–there is no greater relationship. – Yann Martel
  11. When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. – Yann Martel
  12. Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn’t stay dry. – Yann Martel
  13. My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described. – Yann Martel
  14. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can get. – Yann Martel
  15. Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious – Yann Martel
  16. There are animals we haven’t stopped by. Don’t think they’re harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. – Yann Martel
  17. The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists. – Yann Martel
  18. Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. – Yann Martel
  19. As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound. – Yann Martel
  20. The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals. – Yann Martel
  21. In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match. – Yann Martel
  22. When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. – Yann Martel
  23. All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. – Yann Martel
  24. All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. – Yann Martel
  25. Holy dreams.Holy decisions.Holy choices.Holy actions. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  26. What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
  27. O Lord, Thy Word, heals my wounds.O Lord, Thy Word, gives me hope. O Lord, Thy Word, strengthens my spirit.O Lord, Thy Word, revive my soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  28. Every day is a good day, not only Good Friday. Every day is a holy day, not only Holy Thursday.Be holy and do good everyday. – Maisie A Smikle
  29. The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. – Ursula K Le Guin
  30. It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough. – Dejan Stojanovic
  31. The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. – Mark Twain
  32. When you write a story you’re telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story. – Stephen King
  33. I always like the story behind the story more than the story itself. – AD Posey
  34. The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. – Anita Diamant
  35. The greatest story every(any)one can tell is the story of their life. Just don’t let the climax of your story be unrealized dreams. – Unarine Ramaru
  36. A word is a word is another word more beautiful because of the former and the next and the circle and sun they create. – Meia Geddes
  37. God’s word is the way to God himself. If you miss the word of God, you will miss God. Jesus is the word! – Israelmore Ayivor
  38. Noah got a word from God then built upon that word. Then when the storm came he stood on what he built according to the word of God! – Joe Joe Dawson
  39. The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick. – John Martel
  40. If the root is holy, the branches shall be holy. – Lailah Gifty Akita

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