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Michael Ondaatje

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

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes to be at home is like a nightmare by Stephen King."

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Donna Grant

"Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!"

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Donna Grant

"One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family)."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home."

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Donna Grant

"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said home's the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unfortunately, it's also the place where, once you're in there, they don't ever want to let you out."

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Donna Grant

"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."

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Donna Grant

"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."

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Donna Grant

"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."

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Donna Grant

"Home is- Where the heart wants to dwell, Where the mind wants to dance, Where the air is always pleasant, And where love is always abundant."

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Michael Ondaatje
"The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled."

Past

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

Home

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

Home

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Michael Ondaatje
"You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else."

Opinion

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Michael Ondaatje
"When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world."

World

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Michael Ondaatje
"I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure."

Expression

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Michael Ondaatje
"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."

Perception

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Michael Ondaatje
"You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel."

Time

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Michael Ondaatje
"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."

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Michael Ondaatje
"It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing."

Darkness

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