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Helen Garner

"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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Donna Grant

"My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman."

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Donna Grant

"One half who graduate from college never read another book."

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Donna Grant

"The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts."

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Donna Grant

"My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils."

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Donna Grant

"I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana."

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Donna Grant

"The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions."

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Donna Grant

"At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter."

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Donna Grant

"On the first day of a college you will worry about how will you do inside the college? and at the last day of a college you will wonder what will you do outside the college?"

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Donna Grant

"For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!"

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Donna Grant

"When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team."

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Helen Garner
"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."

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Helen Garner
"The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching."

College

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Helen Garner
"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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Helen Garner
"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."

Life

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Helen Garner
"At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society."

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Helen Garner
"But there are some wounds that can never be healed."

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Helen Garner
"I like poking my nose into other people's lives."

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Helen Garner
"I think writers are very anxious."

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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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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."

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