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Been Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
- There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.
- I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up…
- He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to?
- 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…
- When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives…
- Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.
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- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
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- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- 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
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- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour