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For your own good is a persuas...

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Janet Frame 61 quotes

Writing a novel is not merely ...

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 61 quotes

She grew more and more silent ...

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 61 quotes

People dread silence because i...

People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacleЂ'the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know.

Janet Frame 61 quotes

I had a cousin once who lived ...

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 61 quotes

Much of living is an attempt t...

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

Janet Frame 61 quotes

'For your own good' is a per...

'For your own good' is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Janet Frame 61 quotes

'For your own good' is a per...

'For your own good' is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Janet Frame 61 quotes

Death is a dramatic accomplish...

Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.

Janet Frame 61 quotes

The sun is all love and murder...

The sun is all love and murder, judgement, the perpetual raid of conscience, paratrooping light which opens like a snow-blossom in the downward drift of death. Wherever I turn - the golden cymbals of judgement, the summoning of the torturers of light.

Janet Frame 61 quotes

From the first place of liquid...

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.

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I inhabited a territory of lon...

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 61 quotes

Life is hell, but at least the...

Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.

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...When our thoughts revolve w...

...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of prejudice and fixed ideas, when all the time it is more likely that the machine which contains them is only an elaborate cement-mixer, and when the thinking is finished, those whirling thoughts are smoothed into the unchanged conventional mould and seeing them set solid enough to dance, to build, to travel upon, we would never dream of their first deceit, of th

Janet Frame 61 quotes

The strain of constant adaptat...

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.

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Possibility was not a bag or b...

Possibility was not a bag or box that could be closed and sealed, it was a vast open chute which received everything, everything; one could not choose or direct or destroy the powerful flow of possibility.

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...there must be an inviolate ...

...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 61 quotes

But it is imperative, for our ...

But it is imperative, for our own survival, that we avoiid one another, and what more successful means of avoidance are there than words? Language will keep us safe from human onslaught, will express for us our regret at being unable to supply groceries or love or peace.

Janet Frame 61 quotes

I have discovered that my free...

I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.

Janet Frame 61 quotes

I don't want to inhabit the hu...

I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses.

Janet Frame 61 quotes

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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