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Cannot Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
- Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like permanent exile to…
- You built your walls too, she tells him. So I have my wall. She says it glittering in a beauty he cannot stand. She with…
- What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter…
- You think that you are an iconoclast, but you’re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you…
- Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to,…
- A postcard. Neat handwriting fills the rectangle. Half my days I cannot bear to touch you. The rest of my time I feel like it…
- I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too…
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden