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Michael Ondaatje Quotes about Country

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We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders.

We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders.

Michael Ondaatje
Country, Growing Up, Aliens
Michael Ondaatje (2011). “Running in the Family”, p.74, Vintage

The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

Michael Ondaatje
Country, Men, Gambling

Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like permanent exile to that one brother or wife who cannot stand a silent fate in Boston or London or Melbourne. I’ve met many who remain haunted by the persistent ghost of an earlier place.

Michael Ondaatje
Country, Brother, Fate

It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country.

Michael Ondaatje
Country, Home, Odd

He came to this country like a torch on fire and he swallowed air as he walked forward and he gave out light

Michael Ondaatje
Country, Fire, Light
Michael Ondaatje (2011). “In the Skin of a Lion”, p.151, Vintage

The desert could not be claimed or owned — it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names before Canterbury existed, long before battles and treaties quilted Europe and the East ... All of us, even those with European homes and children in the distance, wished to remove the clothing of our countries. It was a place of faith. We disappeared into landscape.

Michael Ondaatje
Country, Children, Distance

I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

Michael Ondaatje
Country, Home, Sri Lanka

Politically I don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country.

Michael Ondaatje
Country, Believe
Source: www.guernicamag.com

Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country. You want the politics of any complicated situation to be complicated in a book of fiction or nonfiction.

Michael Ondaatje
Country, Believe, Book
Source: www.guernicamag.com

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