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"19 Michael Ondaatje Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 12 September 1943 | Poet | Writer | Essayist | Novelist | Editor | Filmmaker |

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

Poem Novel Ending Open door
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..the heart is an organ of fire.

Heart Organ Fire
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Death means you are in the third person.

Death Means Third person
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Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle

Love Small Eye Needle
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Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet.

Sleep Prison Boy Friends
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if you do not plunder the past, the absence feeds on you

You Plunder Past Abscence
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We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

Knot Heart Wish Untie
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From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.

Point Find Lose Souls
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A novel is a mirror walking down a road

Novel Mirror Road
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We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

Expanded Tears Reduced
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She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

Words Loved Clarity Reason
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Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence.

Events Lifetime Damage Influence
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There's more danger in the violence you don't face.

Danger Violence
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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.

Sentence Novel Trust Human
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Love is the use one makes of another.

Love Use Another
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...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.

Art Hide Save Protect
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It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.

Perception Write View Someone
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Sadness is very close to hate.

Sadness Close Hate
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Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.

Time World Truth Opinion
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Michael Ondaatje Quotes & Sayings