"Much of living is an attempt to preserve……" — Janet Frame
"Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others."
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38 Quotes by Janet Frame
Janet Frame has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the…
- The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed…
- 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…
- From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following…
- Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help…
- 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…
- Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the…
- 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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