"You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable."

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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