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Michael Ondaatje Quotes

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How can you smile as though your whole life hasn’t capsized  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) I thought I was being loved because I was being altered  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) Sadness is very close to hate  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) I’m a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I’m a member of both countries  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) That’s Anil’s path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the reader will involve himself or herself  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) There always should be something hanging unfinished before a scene ends so that there’s a reason for going to the next scene  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) When I write my novels I don’t really have a huge plan beforehand; I don’t have the whole plot and architecture, so the story is sort of discovered as I write it  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) That’s one of the great sadnesses of any life - knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn’t seem interesting to me  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) I’ve always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the God occupying you  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) Politically I also 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. You want the politics of any complicated situation to be complicated in a book of fiction or nonfiction  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) Tell me, is it possible to love someone who is not as smart as you are? ...But isn’t it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? ...Why is that? Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) I don’t have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) Nowadays he doesn’t think of his wife, though he knows he can turn around and evoke every move of her, describe any aspect of her, the weigh of her wrist on his heart during the night.  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) People don’t write about kids; you have to give them a lot of freedom, and that causes anarchy and that causes farce.  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) It’s a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what’s beyond in the darkness, beyond where you’re writing.  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) There’s more danger in the violence you don’t face  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) There’s always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) It’s an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes) I see myself as someone who’s been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up without it  (Michael Ondaatje Quotes)
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