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Michael Ondaatje

“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 retreat into something else. Nothing changes you.... I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.”

Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
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The English Patient The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
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