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Janet Frame Quotes

I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those who do return, living, to the world bring, inevitably, a unique point of view that is a nightmare, a treasure, and a lifelong possession.[It is] equal in its rapture and chilling exposure [to] the neighbourhood of the ancient gods and goddesses Picture Quote #1

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others Picture Quote #1

Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective Picture Quote #1

I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it Picture Quote #1

Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought Picture Quote #1

I don’t want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses Picture Quote #1

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Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day Picture Quote #1

I like to see life with its teeth out Picture Quote #1

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance Picture Quote #1

For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter Picture Quote #1

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination Picture Quote #1

They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one’s need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood Picture Quote #1

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For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction Picture Quote #1

All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land Picture Quote #1

When I first began this diary I said I would give a record of my inner life. I begin to wonder if I have said anything about my inner life. What if I have no inner life? Picture Quote #1

Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one’s need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood Picture Quote #1

Conversation is the wall we build between ourselves and other people, too often with tired words like used and broken bottles which, catching the sunlight as they lie embedded in the wall, are mistaken for jewels Picture Quote #1

I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down Picture Quote #1

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She grew more and more silent about what really mattered. She curled inside herself like one of those black chimney brushes, the little shellfish you see on the beach, and you touch them, and then go inside and don’t come out Picture Quote #1

I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door, and it led out between trichotomy and trick. Now what do you think of that? It was only a few minutes walk to trigger, then over the page to trinity, trinket and trional, and there my cousin used to fall asleep Picture Quote #1

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we’re always in other places, lost, like sheep Picture Quote #1

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water Picture Quote #1

Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken to a friend as payment for listening, for putting a wise keyhole to the ear of my mind Picture Quote #1

The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending to slip successfully into the new mould; a time will come when the tailored and camouflaged mind breaks beneath the burden; the stick insect in our brains no longer cares to resemble a twig on the same habitual human tree in the mere hope that it may survive extinction Picture Quote #1

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... there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer’s own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death Picture Quote #1

They think I’m going to be a schoolteacher but I’m going to be a poet Picture Quote #1

Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper Picture Quote #1

Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime Picture Quote #1

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I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those who do return, living, to the world bring, inevitably, a unique point of view that is a nightmare, a treasure, and a lifelong possession.[It is] equal in its rapture and chilling exposure [to] the neighbourhood of the ancient gods and goddesses (Janet Frame Quotes) Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others (Janet Frame Quotes) Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective (Janet Frame Quotes) I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it (Janet Frame Quotes) Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought (Janet Frame Quotes) I don’t want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses (Janet Frame Quotes) Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day (Janet Frame Quotes) I like to see life with its teeth out (Janet Frame Quotes) Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance (Janet Frame Quotes) For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter (Janet Frame Quotes) Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination (Janet Frame Quotes) They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one’s need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood (Janet Frame Quotes) For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction (Janet Frame Quotes) All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land (Janet Frame Quotes) When I first began this diary I said I would give a record of my inner life. I begin to wonder if I have said anything about my inner life. What if I have no inner life? (Janet Frame Quotes) Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one’s need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood (Janet Frame Quotes) Conversation is the wall we build between ourselves and other people, too often with tired words like used and broken bottles which, catching the sunlight as they lie embedded in the wall, are mistaken for jewels (Janet Frame Quotes) I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down (Janet Frame Quotes) She grew more and more silent about what really mattered. She curled inside herself like one of those black chimney brushes, the little shellfish you see on the beach, and you touch them, and then go inside and don’t come out (Janet Frame Quotes) I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door, and it led out between trichotomy and trick. Now what do you think of that? It was only a few minutes walk to trigger, then over the page to trinity, trinket and trional, and there my cousin used to fall asleep (Janet Frame Quotes) It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we’re always in other places, lost, like sheep (Janet Frame Quotes) There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water (Janet Frame Quotes) Everything is always a story, but the loveliest ones are those that get written and are not torn up and are taken to a friend as payment for listening, for putting a wise keyhole to the ear of my mind (Janet Frame Quotes) The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending to slip successfully into the new mould; a time will come when the tailored and camouflaged mind breaks beneath the burden; the stick insect in our brains no longer cares to resemble a twig on the same habitual human tree in the mere hope that it may survive extinction (Janet Frame Quotes) ... there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer’s own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death (Janet Frame Quotes) They think I’m going to be a schoolteacher but I’m going to be a poet (Janet Frame Quotes) Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper (Janet Frame Quotes) Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime (Janet Frame Quotes)

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