Fiction Quote by Helen Garner

It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all…

— Bobby Darin

I felt at some point that I had nothing to lose, and [laughs] maybe I was wrong. I think, you know, there's always these…

— Billy Collins

After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.

— David Petraeus

I stayed in submission to my husband, and he allowed me to do anything I wanted to. I felt like I was lucky to…

— June Carter Cash

Never do away with the quarrel within mind. Only by that do you realize the potential that you can explore and discover something important

— Patric Bensen

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people…

— John Perry Barlow

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

— Isabelle Eberhardt

Being a dominatrix, sticking my foot up people's asses for money, necessitated that I divorce myself from any sort of objective perspective on what…

— Melissa Febos

Based on a string of bad breakups, I was forced to examine my choice of partners. Surely, that must have abolished me from any…

— Leo Buscaglia

I don't think of my opponents in the sense that I don't think of them consciously, I don't steer it one way or the…

— David Cross

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

— Billy Corgan

By changing the way I experienced things, even just involving different details than in reality, I often felt I was betraying the past and…

— Sasa Stanisic