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A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out
Michael Ondaatje
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Michael Ondaatje
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 12
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...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.
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Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet.
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All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.
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There always should be something hanging unfinished before a scene ends so that there's a reason for going to the next scene.
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A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a plant whose heart, if one cuts it out is replaced with fluid containing herbal goodness. Every morning one can drink the liquid amount of the missing heart.
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There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories.
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Tell me, is it possible to love someone who is not as smart as you are? ...But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? ...Why is that? Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.
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Come. We must go deeper with no justice and no jokes.
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I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant who reminisces or remembers a meeting when the other has passed by innocently…but all parts of the body must be ready for the other, all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur.
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She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.
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You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out of a loch and shot full of morphine, full of corridors, lies, loose vegetation, pockets of stones.
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The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.
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