Michael Ondaatje Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Heart, Mean, Sleep

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.104, A&C Black

• For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is erased.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Dream, Children, Past

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Jul 03, 2011

• If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get past the locked door.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Notebook, Writing, Cat

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.51, A&C Black

• But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Mean, Past, Our Lives

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.151, A&C Black

• The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Past, Stills

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