Michael Ondaatje

Poems (16)

The Cinnamon Peeler
Application For A Driving License
To A Sad Daughter
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The first sentence of every novel should be: "Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human." Meander if you want to get to town.
Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943), Canadian novelist. "Palace of Purification," bk. 2, In the Skin of a Lion (1987).
The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.
Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943), Canadian novelist. The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories, introduction (1990).

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i yoted my water bottle down the hall with thomas