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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.”

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

302. “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: “If anything she seems calm in this universe of hers.”

303. “If anything she seems calm in this universe of hers.”

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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “We were Germans, English, Hungarian, African – all of us insignificant to them. Gradually we became nationless. I came to hate nations. We are deformed by nation-states.”

304. “We were Germans, English, Hungarian, African – all of us insignificant to them. Gradually we became nationless. I came to hate nations. We are deformed by nation-states.”

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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by.”

305. “But he had a serenity that came with the choice of the life he wanted to live. And this serenity and certainty I have seen only among those who have the armour of books close by.”

— Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje Quote: “She could not forget the depth of her sleep, the lightness of her plummet.”

306. “She could not forget the depth of her sleep, the lightness of her plummet.”

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

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

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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “He had come from a country where mathematics and mechanics were natural traits. Cars were never destroyed. Parts of them were carried across a village and readapted into a sewing machine or water pump. The backseat of a Ford was reupholstered and became a sofa. Most people in his village were more likely to carry a spanner or screwdriver than a pencil. A car’s irrelevant parts thus entered a grandfather clock or irrigation pulley or the spinning mechanism of an office chair.”

308. “He had come from a country where mathematics and mechanics were natural traits. Cars were never destroyed. Parts of them were carried across a village and readapted into a sewing machine or water pump. The backseat of a Ford was reupholstered and became a sofa. Most people in his village were more likely to carry a spanner or screwdriver than a pencil. A car’s irrelevant parts thus entered a grandfather clock or irrigation pulley or the spinning mechanism of an office chair.”

— Michael Ondaatje

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.”

309. “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.”

— Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje Quote: “That was how he felt safest. Revealing nothing.”

310. “That was how he felt safest. Revealing nothing.”

— Michael Ondaatje

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