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she had a laugh that hinted it had rolled around once or twice in the mud.
Michael Ondaatje
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Michael Ondaatje
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 12
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This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning.
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It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
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How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.
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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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A novel is a mirror walking down a road
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Come. We must go deeper with no justice and no jokes.
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Snap. Lady with dog. Lady on sofa half-naked. Snap. Naked lady. Lady next to dresser. Lady at window. Snap. Lady on balcony sunlight. (On New Orleans photographer E. J. Bellocq)
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I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.
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The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion
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I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too deep or too far. There is a wall instantly in place, and it will not fall.
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There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire.
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I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.
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A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.
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Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence.
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We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.
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Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.
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Politically I don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country.
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That's one of the great sadnesses of any life - knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.
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What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at the head table, held together by a familiar rhetoric. Those who already have power continue to glide along the familiar rut they have made for themselves.
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To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.
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