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There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.

Michael Ondaatje

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Michael Ondaatje
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 12
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Novelist
Pedagogue
Poet
Screenwriter
University Teacher
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Literature
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Anger

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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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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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All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.
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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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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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If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.
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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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It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.
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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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We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.
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all this Beethoven and rain
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Half a page--and the morning is already ancient.
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Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.
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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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I thought I was being loved because I was being altered.
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How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.
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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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