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1. "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
2. "I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence." ~ Helen Garner
3. "At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society." ~ Helen Garner
4. "But there are some wounds that can never be healed." ~ Helen Garner
5. "I think writers are very anxious." ~ Helen Garner
6. "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
7. "People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver." ~ Helen Garner
8. "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
9. "Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction." ~ Helen Garner
10. "But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed." ~ Helen Garner
11. "But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground." ~ Helen Garner
12. "Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions." ~ Helen Garner
13. "Death will not be denied. To try is grandiose. It drives madness into the soul. It leaches out virtue. It injects poison into friendship, and makes a mockery of love." ~ Helen Garner
14. "How on earth could he not see it? It stood on the wooden floor behind him, in the corner just inside the door, where the light from the hallway poorly fell: an old-fashioned alarm clock with three blunt stumps for legs and a bell like a Prussian helmet. Its face, a faithful little moon, was turned up to her, its hands were spread to plead innocence, and its inner mechanism emitted without ceasing the rapid ribbon of blows called the passing of time." ~ Helen Garner
15. "Ray kept well away from the shed. He hated the loony gestures of the furniture, its bossiness, the way Maxine would shape a table to enclose the sitter at it, trapping him like a baby in a high chair or a school boy at his inkwell." ~ Helen Garner
16. "I thought I could hear movement in the kitchen, perhaps a voice murmuring, but it was a matter of urgency that I should get to sleep before two, the hour at which the drought, the refugee camps, the dying planet and all the faults and meannesses of my character would arrive to haunt me." ~ Helen Garner

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Somebody told me when I first got in this business that people believe what they read until somebody prints something that contradicts it. Then they believe both."
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