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Michael Ondaatje Quotes

Michael Ondaatje quotes about leaving

Canadian Author, Writer, Poet September 12, 1943

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She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that only she can recognize in a mirror. Ideal and idealistic in that shiny dark hair! People fall in love with her. She is a woman I don’t know well enough to hold in my wing, if writers have wings, to harbour for the rest of my life. Michael Ondaatje
All his life he has avoided permanent intimacy. Till this war he has been a better lover than husband. He has been a man who slips away, in the way lovers leave chaos, the way thieves leave reduced houses. Michael Ondaatje
In the morning she found pieces of a birdchopped and scattered by the fanblood sprayed onto the mosquito net, its body leaving paths on the wallslike red snails that drifted down in lumps. She could imagine the featherswhile she had sleptfalling around herlike slow rain. Michael Ondaatje
Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They have to protect their belongings. No one is meaner than the rich. Trust me. But they have to follow the rules of their shitty civilised world. They declare war, they have honour, and they can't leave. But you two. We three. We're free. Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the..."
He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves. Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "The noise of the trees, the breaking of moon into silver fish..."
The noise of the trees, the breaking of moon into silver fish bouncing off the leaves of asters outside. Michael Ondaatje
-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover? I said nothing. -Deny it, damn you! Michael Ondaatje

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