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19 Michael Ondaatje Quotes & Sayings
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19 Michael Ondaatje Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 12 September 1943 |
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I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.
Michael Ondaatje
Poem
Novel
Ending
Open door
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..the heart is an organ of fire.
Michael Ondaatje
Heart
Organ
Fire
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Death means you are in the third person.
Michael Ondaatje
Death
Means
Third person
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Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle
Michael Ondaatje
Love
Small
Eye
Needle
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Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet.
Michael Ondaatje
Sleep
Prison
Boy
Friends
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if you do not plunder the past, the absence feeds on you
Michael Ondaatje
You
Plunder
Past
Abscence
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We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.
Michael Ondaatje
Knot
Heart
Wish
Untie
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From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.
Michael Ondaatje
Point
Find
Lose
Souls
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A novel is a mirror walking down a road
Michael Ondaatje
Novel
Mirror
Road
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We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.
Michael Ondaatje
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.
Michael Ondaatje
Words
Loved
Clarity
Reason
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Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence.
Michael Ondaatje
Events
Lifetime
Damage
Influence
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There's more danger in the violence you don't face.
Michael Ondaatje
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.
Michael Ondaatje
Sentence
Novel
Trust
Human
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Love is the use one makes of another.
Michael Ondaatje
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.
Michael Ondaatje
Art
Hide
Save
Protect
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It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
Michael Ondaatje
Perception
Write
View
Someone
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Sadness is very close to hate.
Michael Ondaatje
Sadness
Close
Hate
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Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.
Michael Ondaatje
Time
World
Truth
Opinion
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Michael Ondaatje Quotes & Sayings