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Michael Ondaatje

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Michael Ondaatje Quotes

Total quotes: 4

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Michael Ondaatje

Birthname

Birthday: September 12, 1943

Birthplace: Canada

Educated At: Dulwich College, Queen's University, University Of Toronto

Nationality: Canada

Occupations: Educationist, University Teacher, Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer

Spouse: Linda Spalding

Total quotes: 4

“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

“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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