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Rooms Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
- Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at…
- 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…
- Here. Where I am anonymous and alone in a white room with no history and no parading. So I can make something unknown in the…
- when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending on the light…
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- 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
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,… — Chinua Achebe
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many… — Teresa of Avila
- I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a… — Joseph Barbera
- Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in? — Nicholson Baker
- These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago...… — Ansel Adams
- Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper,… — Roseanne Barr
- I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned. — Michael Bay