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For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places.

Michael Ondaatje

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Michael Ondaatje
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 12
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Novelist
Pedagogue
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Screenwriter
University Teacher
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He walked out of the hospital into the sun, into open air for the first time in months, out of the green-lit rooms that lay like glass in his mind. He stood there breathing everything in, the hurry of everyone. First, he thought, I need shoes with rubber on the bottom. I need gelato.
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The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.
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What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.
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she had a laugh that hinted it had rolled around once or twice in the mud.
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Nicholas Temelcoff is famous on the bridge, a daredevil. He is given all the difficult jobs and he takes them. He descends into the air with no fear. He is a solitary. He assembles ropes, brushes the tackle and pulley at his waist, and falls off the bridge like a diver over the edge of a boat.
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I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love
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I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.
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We keep wanting to save those who are forlorn in this world. It’s a male habit.
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She had always wanted words, she loved them grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.
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It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.
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Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words you can never translate properly into another language.
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It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
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People don't write about kids you have to give them a lot of freedom, and that causes anarchy and that causes farce.
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Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.
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Come. We must go deeper with no justice and no jokes.
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How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized
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