Janet Frame Quotes

• The word permanent…had its own kind of revenge on those who misused it, for the Bible said that nothing was permanent and everything came and went.

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• What use the green river, the gold place, if time and death pinned human in the pocket of my land not rest from taking underground the green all-willowed and white rose and bean flower and morning-mist picnic of song in pepper-pot breast of thrush?

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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.

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• 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.

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• Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

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• They think I’m going to be a schoolteacher but I’m going to be a poet.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I like to see life with its teeth out.

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

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• Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.

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• 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.

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Birth:	28th August, 1924
Death:	29th January, 2004
Nationality:	New Zealander
Profession:	Author, Novelist, Poet, Writer

About

Janet Frame was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. She was a New Zealander author, novelist, poet and short story writer. She studied at the University of Otago. In 1943, she began training as a teacher at the Dunedin College of Education. She wrote several novels include: Owls Do Cry, Faces in the Water, Scented Gardens for the Blind, The Adaptable Man, A State of Siege, Intensive Care, Daughter Buffalo, Living in the Maniototo, The Carpathians, Towards Another Summer, and In the Memorial Room. She wrote several short stories include: Lagoon and Other Stories, The Reservoir, and You Are Now Entering the Human Heart. She wrote several poems include:  The Pocket Mirror and The Goose Bath. She authored three volumes of autobiography, including To the Is-land, An Angel at my Table and The Envoy from Mirror City.

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