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Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

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I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

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That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

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I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#closure #ending #i #novels #real

I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

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It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

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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 discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#beyond #book #case #darkness #discovering

There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself. ↗

— Jerry Only

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Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time. ↗

— Jerry Only

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Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life. ↗

— Yoko Ono

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