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Michael Ondaatje Quotes

Michael Ondaatje quotes about past

Canadian Author, Writer, Poet September 12, 1943

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July 1936There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lover enters the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire. A love story is not about those who lose their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing - not the wisdom of sleep or the... Michael Ondaatje
A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past. Michael Ondaatje
A love story is not about those who lose their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing – not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past. Michael Ondaatje
The jackal with one eye that looks back and one that regards the path you consider taking. In his jaws are pieces of the past he delivers to you, and when all of that time is fully discovered it will prove to have been already known. Michael Ondaatje
For the first forty days a childis given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased. Michael Ondaatje
If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get past the locked door. Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "But we were interested in how our lives could mean something..."
But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past. Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled."
The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled. Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje quote: "...if you do not plunder the past, the absence feeds on you"
...if you do not plunder the past, the absence feeds on you Michael Ondaatje

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