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Michael Ondaatje war

Michael Ondaatje | war

That’s Anil’s path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

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Michael Ondaatje trust

Michael Ondaatje | trust

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.

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Michael Ondaatje relationship

Michael Ondaatje | relationship

In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient’s mind.

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Michael Ondaatje

Quote from Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter

This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning.

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Michael Ondaatje The English Patient

Quote from Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian, a bit of a pedant who reminisces or remembers a meeting when the other has passed by innocently…but all parts of the body must be ready for the other, all atoms must jump in one direction for desire to occur.

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Michael Ondaatje The English Patient

Quote from Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire.

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Michael Ondaatje The Cat's Table

Quote from Michael Ondaatje, The Cat’s Table

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

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