"It's why you create characters: so you can……" — Michael Ondaatje
"It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself."
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149 Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
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In Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts.
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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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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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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally…
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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
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The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you…
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Sometimes, if you really don't know how you feel about a topic, reading how both sides argue it can help.
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I don't like guys who will lie down and take it. I want someone who'll fight back. I like people…
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and…
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Well, as I said, you know the issue of Greek debt, they've grasped the principle of debt reduction. I think…
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I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve…
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In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The…
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People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm…
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