Michael Ondaatje Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They have to protect their belongings. No one is meaner than the rich. Trust me. But they have to follow the rules of their shitty civilised world. They declare war, they have honour, and they can't leave. But you two. We three. We're free.

  Michael Ondaatje

  War, Smart, Years

• 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

• So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.

  Michael Ondaatje

  War, Yellow, Nurse

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.178, Vintage

• 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.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Betrayal, War, Heart

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Nov 22, 2015

• 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

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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