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Janet Frame quotes: For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter.

For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter.

Janet Frame quotes: I like to see life with its teeth out.

I like to see life with its teeth out.

Janet Frame quotes: Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.

Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.

Janet Frame quotes: Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.

Janet Frame quotes: They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

Janet Frame quotes: Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others.

Janet Frame quotes: I felt, just then, a kind of indebtedness to green, the colour.

I felt, just then, a kind of indebtedness to green, the colour.

Janet Frame quotes: Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

Janet Frame quotes: Quick, where is the Red Cross God with the ointment and plaster the needle and thread and the clean linen bandages to mummify our festering dreams?

Quick, where is the Red Cross God with the ointment and plaster the needle and thread and the clean linen bandages to mummify our festering dreams?

Janet Frame quotes: For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make man agree to his own destruction.

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

Janet Frame quotes: I tried to say beware the room is laid with traps and hung with hooks.

I tried to say beware the room is laid with traps and hung with hooks.

Janet Frame quotes: Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.

Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.

Janet Frame quotes: I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses.

I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses.

Janet Frame quotes: Life is hell, but there are prizes.

Life is hell, but there are prizes.

Janet Frame quotes: I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.

I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.

Janet Frame quotes: "if you can't adapt yourself to living in a mental hospital how do you expect to be able to live 'out in the world'?" How indeed?

"if you can't adapt yourself to living in a mental hospital how do you expect to be able to live 'out in the world'?" How indeed?

Janet Frame quotes: Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper.

Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper.

Janet Frame quotes: There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

Janet Frame quotes: I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.

I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.

Janet Frame quotes: I must go down to the seas againto find where Iburied the hatchet with Yesterday.

I must go down to the seas again
to find where I
buried the hatchet with Yesterday.