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"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."
"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."
"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."
"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."
Past,
"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."
"If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up."
"I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it."
Explore more quotes by Michael Ondaatje
"You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel."
"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries."
"You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel."
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