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Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet.
Michael Ondaatje
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Michael Ondaatje
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 12
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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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There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.
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All I ever wanted was a world without maps.
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Death means you are in the third person.
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Come. We must go deeper with no justice and no jokes.
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This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.
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It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
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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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There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life.
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There's more danger in the violence you don't face.
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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
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What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. Outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world.
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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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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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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 music of Gavin Bryars falls under no category. It is mongrel, full of sensuality and wit and is deeply moving. He is one of the few composers who can put slapstick and primal emotion alongside each other. He allows you to witness new wonders in the sounds around you by approaching them from a completely new angle. With a third ear maybe.
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Githa Hariharan's fiction is wonderful-full of subtleties and humor and tenderness.
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It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.
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I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.
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In Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts.
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