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

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Michael Ondaatje

#Writing Quotes #Views Quotes #Perception Quotes

“To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes.”
“Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!”
“When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.”
“Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.”
“Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.”
“Vigorous writing is concise.”

Source : The Elements of Style ch. 2 (1918)
“Ah me! why may not love and life be one?”

Source : Henry Timrod (2007). “The Collected Poems of Henry Timrod: A Variorum Edition”, p.79, University of Georgia Press
“It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.”

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