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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.

Michael Ondaatje

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Michael Ondaatje
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 12
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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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In Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts.
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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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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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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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The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.
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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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Half a page--and the morning is already ancient.
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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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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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Sadness is very close to hate.
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Come. We must go deeper with no justice and no jokes.
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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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There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.
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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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Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.
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As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.
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So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.
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I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.
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I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.
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