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“ 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. ”

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

~ Helen Garner

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

~ Helen Garner

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I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will.

~ Helen Garner

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It's very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed up with their grief. In fact, often I think the anger that they feel is a form of grief; it's a kind of raging against what's happening.

~ Helen Garner

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