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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “This history of mine,′ Herodotus says, ‘has from the beginning sought out the supplementary to the main argument.’ What you find in him are cul-de-sacs within the sweep of history – how people betray each other for the sake of nations, how people fall in love...”

301. “This history of mine,′ Herodotus says, ‘has from the beginning sought out the supplementary to the main argument.’ What you find in him are cul-de-sacs within the sweep of history – how people betray each other for the sake of nations, how people fall in love...”

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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.”

302. “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: “She stands up in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance.”

303. “She stands up in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance.”

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Michael Ondaatje Quote: “It’s resplendent,” The Darter claimed that first weekend, one hand on the wheel, the other attempting to remove a sandwich from his pocket. He did not appear fully focused on the steering of the barge. A cold wind scalloped the water, gusting and shuddering against us from all sides.”

304. “It’s resplendent,” The Darter claimed that first weekend, one hand on the wheel, the other attempting to remove a sandwich from his pocket. He did not appear fully focused on the steering of the barge. A cold wind scalloped the water, gusting and shuddering against us from all sides.”

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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.”

305. “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: “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.”

306. “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.”

307. “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: “By August the blitz had begun, and in one month there were suddenly 2,500 unexploded bombs to be dealt with. Roads were closed, factories deserted. By September the number of live bombs had reached 3,700. One hundred new bomb squads were set up, but there was still no understanding of how the bombs worked. Life expectancy in these units was ten weeks.”

308. “By August the blitz had begun, and in one month there were suddenly 2,500 unexploded bombs to be dealt with. Roads were closed, factories deserted. By September the number of live bombs had reached 3,700. One hundred new bomb squads were set up, but there was still no understanding of how the bombs worked. Life expectancy in these units was ten weeks.”

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

309. “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.”

310. “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

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