Painful Quote by Jane Alison

“You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful.”

Jane Alison

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I know that I was able to find my way out of most of my feelings by writing.

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“Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.”

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I was born in Australia and grew up in the foreign services. I had this kind of trans-Pacific life. I think I was always sort of oriented towards here's Australia and here's America and here's the Pacific.

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When you're waiting for a bus, the thing to do is smoke a cigarette.

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I think sometimes to still be angry is appropriate, but you want to be able to live with it.

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“This stream of watching made what was watched wanted.”

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