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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.»
Author: Janet Frame
«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.»
Author: Janet Frame
«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.»
Author: Janet Frame
«''For your own good'' is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.»
Author: Janet Frame
«Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.»
Author: Janet Frame
«Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day. . .»
Author: Janet Frame
«For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.»
Author: Janet Frame