"The first sentence of every novel should be: "Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human." Meander if you want to get to town."
Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943), Canadian novelist. "Palace of Purification," bk. 2, In the Skin of a Lion (1987).

"The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled."
Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943), Canadian novelist. The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories, introduction (1990).

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Philip Michael Ondaatje, OC, (pronounced /?n'd??t?i?/), (born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist and poet, perhaps best known for his ...
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Michael Ondaatje is the author of four previous novels, a memoir, ... In his novels, poetry, and memoirs, Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje moves from ...
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Delirious in a different kind of way: An interview with Michael Ondaatje ... Michael Ondaatje was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1943. ...
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