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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-frame/the-sun-is-all-love-and-murder-judgement-the-perpetual-raid-of/)

[Janet Frame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-frame/)

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## More by Janet Frame

> [Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-frame/very-often-the-law-of-extremity-demands-an-attention-to-irrelevance/)

[Janet Frame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-frame/)

> [I must go down to the seas again to find where I buried the hatchet with Yesterday.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-frame/i-must-go-down-to-the-seas-again-to-find-where-i-buried-the-hatchet/)

[Janet Frame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-frame/)

> [“So I went up north to a land of palm trees and mangroves like malignant growths in the mud-filled throats of the bays, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-frame/so-i-went-up-north-to-a-land-of-palm-trees-and-mangroves-like/)

[Janet Frame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-frame/)

> [“A certain pleasure was added to Grace’s relief at establishing herself as a migratory bird. She found that she understood the characters in her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-frame/a-certain-pleasure-was-added-to-grace-s-relief-at-establishing/)

[Janet Frame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-frame/)

> [“I have to cry out here that language is all we have for the delicacy and truth of telling, that words are the sole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-frame/i-have-to-cry-out-here-that-language-is-all-we-have-for-the-delicacy/)

[Janet Frame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-frame/)

> [The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-frame/the-only-certainty-about-writing-and-trying-to-be-a-writer-is-that-it/)

[Janet Frame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-frame/)

> [“Life is hell, but there are prizes. ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-frame/life-is-hell-but-there-are-prizes/)

[Janet Frame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-frame/)

> [I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-frame/i-don-t-want-to-inhabit-the-human-world-under-false-pretenses/)

[Janet Frame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-frame/)

> [Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-frame/listening-to-her-one-experienced-a-deep-uneasiness-as-of-having/)

[Janet Frame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-frame/)

> [I don't wish to inhabit the human world under false pretences.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-frame/i-don-t-wish-to-inhabit-the-human-world-under-false-pretences/)

[Janet Frame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-frame/)

> [People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-frame/people-dread-silence-because-it-is-transparent-like-clear-water-which/)

[Janet Frame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-frame/)

> [So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-frame/so-we-went-to-bed-assaulted-by-sleep-that-fumed-at-us-from-medicine/)

[Janet Frame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-frame/)

> [She grew more and more silent about what really mattered. She curled inside herself like one of those black chimney brushes, the little shellfish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-frame/she-grew-more-and-more-silent-about-what-really-mattered-she-curled/)

[Janet Frame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-frame/)

> [Conversation is the wall we build between ourselves and other people, too often with tired words like used and broken bottles which, catching the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-frame/conversation-is-the-wall-we-build-between-ourselves-and-other-people/)

[Janet Frame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-frame/)

> [But it is imperative, for our own survival, that we avoiid one another, and what more successful means of avoidance are there than words?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/janet-frame/but-it-is-imperative-for-our-own-survival-that-we-avoiid-one-another/)

[Janet Frame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/janet-frame/)

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