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Men 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.
- The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.
- We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of…
- 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…
- I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and…
- 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,…
- He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance could…
- 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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