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Helen Garner quotes: It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

Helen Garner quotes: People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

Helen Garner quotes: At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

Helen Garner quotes: The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

Helen Garner quotes: I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was anger.

I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was anger.

Helen Garner quotes: Janet Malcolm's probably the writer I most admire and who's most influenced me.

Janet Malcolm's probably the writer I most admire and who's most influenced me.

Helen Garner quotes: That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

Helen Garner quotes: Judges are men who in the cool of the evening undo work that better men do in the heat of the day.

Judges are men who in the cool of the evening undo work that better men do in the heat of the day.

Helen Garner quotes: The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

Helen Garner quotes: That's the best thing that's ever happened to me, bar none, is having grandchildren and living by them and being part of their lives.

That's the best thing that's ever happened to me, bar none, is having grandchildren and living by them and being part of their lives.

Helen Garner quotes: I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.

I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.

Helen Garner quotes: I don't believe that anything's totally invented ... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.

I don't believe that anything's totally invented ... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.

Helen Garner quotes: I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

Helen Garner quotes: It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

Helen Garner quotes: I think writers are very anxious.

I think writers are very anxious.

Helen Garner quotes: But there are some wounds that can never be healed.

But there are some wounds that can never be healed.

Helen Garner quotes: Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

Helen Garner quotes: I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

Helen Garner quotes: Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy.

Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy.