"In Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth…" — Michael Ondaatje
"In Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts."
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149 Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
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If any of you on your journeys see her-shout to me, whistle...he sang, and it became a habit for audiences…
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What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical…
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One of the things that happens in novels it's almost like a continual debate with yourself. That's why you're writing…
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You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel:…
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It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
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Half a page--and the morning is already ancient.
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I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.
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Most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion.
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A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch,
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You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be…
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It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.
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It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all…
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it…
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I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first…
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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a…
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I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this…
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
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