Michael Ondaatje Zitate

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“For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places.”

“Death means you are in the third person.”

“Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.”

“The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.”

“all this Beethoven and rain”

“All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.”

“If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get past the locked door.”

“We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.”

“How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or that by accident, survive or improve by the luck of the draw, with little choice or determination on our part.”

“she had a laugh that hinted it had rolled around once or twice in the mud.”

“How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized”

“I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.”

“Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle”