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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “Now it seemed to others he had choreographed the arc of his career in order to attempt this one trick on the world.”

301. “Now it seemed to others he had choreographed the arc of his career in order to attempt this one trick on the world.”

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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “There’s always been this deafness in icons. You rely only on gestures from the hierarchy you find yourself within while what appears beyond those painted windows remains silent. You hear no rush of water, or the buckling of clouds. The world outside is icon-less. A metal arm that heals a damaged Madonna is constructed by blacksmiths, not faith.”

302. “There’s always been this deafness in icons. You rely only on gestures from the hierarchy you find yourself within while what appears beyond those painted windows remains silent. You hear no rush of water, or the buckling of clouds. The world outside is icon-less. A metal arm that heals a damaged Madonna is constructed by blacksmiths, not faith.”

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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “While I have used real names and characters and historical situations I have also used more personal pieces of friends and fathers. There have been some date changes, some characters brought together, and some facts have been expanded or polished to suit the truth of fiction.”

303. “While I have used real names and characters and historical situations I have also used more personal pieces of friends and fathers. There have been some date changes, some characters brought together, and some facts have been expanded or polished to suit the truth of fiction.”

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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “When we are young, he thought, the first necessary rule is to stop invasions of ourselves. We know this as children.”

304. “When we are young, he thought, the first necessary rule is to stop invasions of ourselves. We know this as children.”

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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “Revealing his past or qualities of his character would have been too loud a gesture.”

305. “Revealing his past or qualities of his character would have been too loud a gesture.”

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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “Our table’s status on the Oronsay continued to be minimal, while those at the Captain’s Table were constantly toasting one another’s significance. That was a small lesson I learned on the journey. What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.”

306. “Our table’s status on the Oronsay continued to be minimal, while those at the Captain’s Table were constantly toasting one another’s significance. That was a small lesson I learned on the journey. What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.”

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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “He spends hours with the Englishman, who reminds him of a fir tree he saw in England, its one sick branch, too weighted down with age, held up by a crutch made out of another tree. It stood in Lord Suffolk’s garden on the edge of the cliff, overlooking the Bristol Channel like a sentinel. In spite of such infirmity he sensed the creature within it was noble, with a memory whose power rainbowed beyond ailment.”

307. “He spends hours with the Englishman, who reminds him of a fir tree he saw in England, its one sick branch, too weighted down with age, held up by a crutch made out of another tree. It stood in Lord Suffolk’s garden on the edge of the cliff, overlooking the Bristol Channel like a sentinel. In spite of such infirmity he sensed the creature within it was noble, with a memory whose power rainbowed beyond ailment.”

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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “But here they were shedding skins. They could imitate nothing but what they were. There was no defence but to look for the truth in others.”

308. “But here they were shedding skins. They could imitate nothing but what they were. There was no defence but to look for the truth in others.”

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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “The chaos and tumble of events. The first sentence of every novel should be: “Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.” Meander if you want to get to town.”

309. “The chaos and tumble of events. The first sentence of every novel should be: “Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.” Meander if you want to get to town.”

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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.”

310. “We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.”

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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “We steered our way up a narrowing cut. It was a different atmosphere now, with sunlight falling through yellowing leaves, the smell of wet earth rising from the riverbanks. We had loaded the barge with boxes at Limehouse Reach, where The Darter said they made quicklime centuries earlier.”

311. “We steered our way up a narrowing cut. It was a different atmosphere now, with sunlight falling through yellowing leaves, the smell of wet earth rising from the riverbanks. We had loaded the barge with boxes at Limehouse Reach, where The Darter said they made quicklime centuries earlier.”

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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “There was something about him she wanted to learn, grow into, and hide in, where she could turn away from being an adult.”

312. “There was something about him she wanted to learn, grow into, and hide in, where she could turn away from being an adult.”

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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “He rides the boat of morphine. It races in him, imploding time and geography the way maps compress the world onto a two-dimensional sheet of paper.”

313. “He rides the boat of morphine. It races in him, imploding time and geography the way maps compress the world onto a two-dimensional sheet of paper.”

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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “Some rooms could not be entered because of rubble. One bomb crater allowed moon and rain into the library downstairs –.”

314. “Some rooms could not be entered because of rubble. One bomb crater allowed moon and rain into the library downstairs –.”

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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “The mole’s tunnelled chambers are crushed by wheels, The lark’s eggs scattered, their owners fled; And the hedgehog’s household the sapper unseals. The snail draws in at the terrible tread, But in vain; he is crushed by the felloe-rim. The worm asks what can be overhead, And wriggles deep from a scene so grim, And guesses him safe.”

315. “The mole’s tunnelled chambers are crushed by wheels, The lark’s eggs scattered, their owners fled; And the hedgehog’s household the sapper unseals. The snail draws in at the terrible tread, But in vain; he is crushed by the felloe-rim. The worm asks what can be overhead, And wriggles deep from a scene so grim, And guesses him safe.”

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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “For there is only, but always, a small tunnel of escape for forgiveness.”

316. “For there is only, but always, a small tunnel of escape for forgiveness.”

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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke and the earth shall wax old like a garment. And they that dwell therein shall die in like manner. For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worms shall eat them like wool.”

317. “For the heavens shall vanish away like smoke and the earth shall wax old like a garment. And they that dwell therein shall die in like manner. For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worms shall eat them like wool.”

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