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Michael Ondaatje Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Tagged: Words, Passion, literary, Books, Love, Interest
“Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again.”
— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Tagged: heart, Love, Loving, Sadness, expression
“There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the names of lovers rather than their own.”
— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Tagged: Love, Places, travel, Nostalgia
“How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.”
— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Tagged: Love, Fall in love, Falling In Love, Loving, love & life
“You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else’s poison – thinking you can cure them by sharing it – you will instead store it within you.”
— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Tagged: Sadness
“...the heart is an organ of fire.”
— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Tagged: heart, Love, Feelings, Passion, emotions, Life
“Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.”
— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
“What began it all was the bright bone of a dream.”
— Michael Ondaatje, Running In The Family
Tagged: Beginning, Dream, Faith, Chasing Dreams
“Once a friend had told me that it was only when I was drunk that I seemed to know exactly what I wanted. 

And so, two months later, in the midst of the farewell party in my growing wildness—dancing, balancing a wine glass on my forehead and falling to the floor twisting round and getting up without letting the glass tip, a trick which seemed only possible when drunk and relaxed—I knew I was already running.”
— Michael Ondaatje, Running In The Family
Tagged: My Favorites, Running, Running Away, Being Drunk, How We Grow, How We Change, Leaving
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