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Desert Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
- A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.
- She had lived in that house fourteen years, and every year she had demanded of John that she be given a pet of some strange…
- I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into…
- The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given…
- Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.
- A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a plant whose heart,…
- In the desert the most loved waters, like a lover's name, are carried blue in your hands, enter your throat. One swallows absence.
- ... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds.
- 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…
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- I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a… — Orlando Bloom
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- My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of… — Nicolas Cage
- As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. — Albert Camus
- The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were… — Noam Chomsky
- ...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- He who, conscious of being strong, is content to be weak, he shall be the paragon of mankind. Being the paragon of… — Laozi
- The only thing worse than finishing second is to be lying on the desert alone with your back broken. Either way, nobody… — Unknown Author
- It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it… — Edmond Jabes
- For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that… — Lyndon B. Johnson
- For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other… — Alan Valentine
- My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position,… — Edward Abbey