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Michael Ondaatje
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 12
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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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Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.
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How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or that by accident, survive or improve by the luck of the draw, with little choice or determination on our part.
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I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant who reminisces or remembers a meeting when the other has passed by innocently…but all parts of the body must be ready for the other, all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur.
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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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Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.
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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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Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence.
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How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized
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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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You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.
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Fathers die.You keep on loving them in any way you can.You can't hide him away in your heart.
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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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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 tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.
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Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place.
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All I ever wanted was a world without maps.
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