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Danh ngôn của Romesh Gunesekera (Sứ mệnh: 4)

In writing, I try to find the right balance between momentum and infinity, truth and beauty.
Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.
To come to England in the 1970s was to return to this strange other-world of half-known history. I found the imperial architecture curiously familiar: the post office, the town hall, the botanic gardens.