"...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us."

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Source : Michael Ondaatje (2010). “Divisadero”, p.99, Bloomsbury Publishing

Michael Ondaatje

#Art Quotes #Voice Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“As you get older, stuff starts to wear down. I can't play four basketball games a week anymore. It takes me three days to recover from one. I'm a little older, a little scrappier. So now I do yoga instead. And whatever else happens in the day, I'm set up in the best way possible. I feel great. I'm so flexible.”
“There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.”

Source : 1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY
“Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy.”

Source : Gershon Legman (1982). “No laughing matter: an analysis of sexual humor”, Indiana Univ Pr
“I have to say: We were looking at all of Native American actors, who mostly all work under one casting director. And there's so much talent to be cast. There really is. We saw some really good readings. There's more talent to be had there.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.”
“Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.”

Source : Entering the world (M. Odent)
“Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.”
“The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.”

Source : "What's in your basket, Vince Cable?" by Rebecca Seal and Dr John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2009.

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