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Helen Garner

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

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

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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."

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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

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"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."

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"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."

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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

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"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

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"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

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"It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life."
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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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"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."
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"The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching."
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"But there are some wounds that can never be healed."
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"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."
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"We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything seemed full of hope... But, as we got older and we saw how much women's behaviour contributed to what was wrong, we stopped being able to see ourselves purely as."
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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."
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"I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually."
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