Quotes from book
Divisadero

Divisadero
Michael Ondaatje

Divisadero is a novel by Michael Ondaatje, first published on April 17, 2007 by McClelland and Stewart.

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

Michael Ondaatje book Divisadero

Source: Divisadero

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“How we are almost nothing. We think, in our youth, we are the centre of the universe, but we simply respond, go this way or that by accident, survive or improve by the luck of the draw, with little choice or determination on our part.”

Michael Ondaatje book Divisadero

Source: Divisadero

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