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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

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.

Michael Ondaatje
Growing Up, War, Australia
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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.

Michael Ondaatje
Growing Up, War, Fate

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