Michael Ondaatje citáty a výroky
„Byla to naše velká spisovatelka. Moje hrdinka.“
o Mavis Gallantové
Originál: (en) She was our great writer. My hero.
Zdroj: [Legendary Montreal-born writer Mavis Gallant dead at age 91, montrealgazette.com, 2014-02-19, 2014-03-22, http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Legendary+Montrealborn+writer+Mavis+Gallant+dead/9520094/story.html]
Michael Ondaatje: Citáty anglicky
“For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places.”
Zdroj: The English Patient
“Death means you are in the third person.”
Zdroj: The English Patient
“Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.”
Zdroj: The English Patient
“All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.”
Zdroj: The English Patient
“We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.”
Zdroj: The Cat's Table
“she had a laugh that hinted it had rolled around once or twice in the mud.”
Zdroj: The Cat's Table
“How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized”
Zdroj: The English Patient
“I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.”
Zdroj: The English Patient
“Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle”
Zdroj: The English Patient
