Quotes by Janet Frame

Janet Frame

New Zealand author

Lived from: 1924 - 2004

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: New Zealand

Born: 28 august 1924 Died: 29 january 2004

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• ''For your own good'' is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

  ― 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 do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

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• Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

  ― Janet Frame
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Subjects in these quotes:

• destruction
• imagination
• expedition
• cathedrals
• streets
• merely

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