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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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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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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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...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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