We are full of anarchy. We take our clothes off because we shouldn't take our clothes off. And we behave worse in other countries.

Michael Ondaatje


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What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.

Michael Ondaatje

Stichwörter: power reflective thoughtful pensive



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We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

Michael Ondaatje

Stichwörter: love loss memory longing



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As if this collection of things is what she is. So we fall in love with ghosts.

Michael Ondaatje


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How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.

Michael Ondaatje

Stichwörter: love english-patient ondaatje



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...how many of us have a moved heart that shies away to a different angle, a millimetre or even less from the place where it first existed, some repositioning unknown to us.

Michael Ondaatje

Stichwörter: youth travel-writing



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How can she who had torn his heart open at the waterworks with her art lie now like a human in his arms? Or stand catatonic in front of bananas on Eastern Avenue deciding which bunch to buy? Does this make her more magical? As if a fabulous heron in flight has fallen dead at his feet and he sees the further wonder of its meticulous construction. How did someone conceive of putting this structure of bones and feathers together, deciding on the weight of beak and skull, and give it the ability to fly?

Michael Ondaatje


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...record collection, with all those lifetimes and desires rhymed and distilled into two or three minutes of a song.

Michael Ondaatje


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Sleep is a prison for a boy who has friends to meet.

Michael Ondaatje


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Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural pauses. He is a writer who used pen and ink. He looked up from the page a lot, I believe, stared through his window and listened to birds, as most writers who are alone do. Some do not know the names of birds, though he did. Your eye is too quick and North American. Think about the speed of his pen. What an appalling, barnacled old first paragraph it is otherwise.

Michael Ondaatje

Stichwörter: reading books



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