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Back Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
- That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human…
- He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house....he…
- In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be…
- She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back…
- Water is the exile, carried back in cans and flasks, the ghost between your hands and your mouth.
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- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back… — David Attenborough
- I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. — Chinua Achebe
- Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time. — Margaret Atwood
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood