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Michael Ondaatje Quotes

Michael Ondaatje quotes

Canadian Author, Writer, Poet September 12, 1943

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Michael Ondaatje quote: "Death means you are in the third person."
Death means you are in the third person. 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: "Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by..."
Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you. Michael Ondaatje
He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance could lead to paragraphs of theory. Michael Ondaatje
Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place. Michael Ondaatje
For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are songlike in their refrains and rhymes, making up a single monologue. We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell. Michael Ondaatje
So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, hadgaps of plot like sections of a road washed out by storms, missingincidents as if locusts had consumed a section of tapestry, as ifplaster loosened by the bombing had fallen away from a mural at night. Michael Ondaatje
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. Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous."
Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous. Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the..."
Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting. Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed..."
When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world. Michael Ondaatje
Maybe this is the way to come out of a war, he thinks. A burned man to care for, some sheets to wash in a fountain, a room painted like a garden. Michael Ondaatje
Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border we cross. Michael Ondaatje
... in Asian gardens you could look at rock and imagine water, you could gaze at a still pool and believe it had the hardness of rock. Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: " the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We..."
... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds. Michael Ondaatje

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