Helen Garner Quotes
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Helen Garner Quotes & Sayings
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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
My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all.
— Elizabeth Lesser
People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.
— Helen Garner
At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.
— Helen Garner
I want to talk WITH someone, not be talked at BY someone.
— Elizabeth Rudnick
The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
— Helen Garner
I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was anger.
— Helen Garner
So much history behind and between people, one moment was always a nasty echo of another time, most of who you were already scripted.
— Nalo Hopkinson
That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
— Helen Garner
There is always a new flavor of the month, especially in film.
— Wendy Raquel Robinson
Judges are men who in the cool of the evening undo work that better men do in the heat of the day.
— Helen Garner
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
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
No man fails who does his best.
— Orison Swett Marden
It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected.
— Louise Gluck
I like poking my nose into other people's lives.
— Helen Garner
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
Everybody's looking for their tiny piece of meaning. Some fleeting, perfect thing that might make them more alive.
— Kate Tempest
I think writers are very anxious.
— Helen Garner
But there are some wounds that can never be healed.
— Helen Garner