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Death means you are in the third person.

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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He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.
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I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.
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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 see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.
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I thought I was being loved because I was being altered.
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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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She had always wanted words, she loved them grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.
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Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.
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A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.
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All I ever wanted was a world without maps.
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There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.
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For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places.
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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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All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.
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