Mere Hope Quotes by Janet Frame

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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…
• The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or…
• Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.
• I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those…
• From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with…
• Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding…
• Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.
• The sooner you 'settle' the sooner you'll be allowed home" was the ruling logic; and "if you can't adapt yourself to living…
• Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of…
• I like to see life with its teeth out.
• They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.
• Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.

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