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Michael Ondaatje

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

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"Art is a distinct form of human communication. Art interprets experience, sensation, and feelings. An artistic work translates our mental images and allows other people to understand what we feel; art conveys our happiness, sadness, hopes, doubts, anxieties, fears, desires, and ineffable longings."

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"Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are."

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