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Out Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
- If any of you on your journeys see her-shout to me, whistle...he sang, and it became a habit for audiences to shout and whistle in…
- You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out of a loch…
- It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
- I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.
- He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If…
- She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that…
- A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out
- So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had gaps of plot like sections of a road washed out by storms,…
- Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again
- A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a plant whose heart,…
- He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance could…
- This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.
- He came to this country like a torch on fire and he swallowed air as he walked forward and he gave out light
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