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Michael Ondaatje Quotes

Michael Ondaatje quotes about life

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
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. Michael Ondaatje
But there was a discipline, it was just that we didn't understand. We thought he was formless, but I think now he was tormented by order, what was outside it. He tore apart the plot - see his music was immediately on top of his own life. Echoing. As if, when he was playing he was lost and hunting for the right accidental notes. Listening to him was like talking to Coleman. You were both changing direction with every sentence, sometimes in the middle, using each other as a springboard through... Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized"
How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized Michael Ondaatje
Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book. Michael Ondaatje
it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a school teacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by. Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "This was the time in her life that she fell upon booksas the..."
This was the time in her life that she fell upon booksas the only door out of her cell. They became half her world. 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
Michael Ondaatje quote: "Her hand touched me at the wrist. "If I gave you my life, you..."
Her hand touched me at the wrist. "If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn't you?"I didn't say anything. Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "Blood a necklace on me all my life."
Blood a necklace on me all my life. Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "If I gave you my life, you would drop it wouldnt you?"
If I gave you my life, you would drop it wouldnt you? Michael Ondaatje

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