I want the marginality to come into the center. This is the thing I was conscious of growing … - Michael Ondaatje

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The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.

Michael Ondaatje

I want the marginality to come into the center. This is the thing I was conscious of growing up, when I later lived in England. I saw all these war movies that came out shortly after the war, and they were all about the war being fought by Englishmen or Americans, there were no other "allies" in it - from India or Australia, etc.

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She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

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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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There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life.

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Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy

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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.

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