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Helen Garner

"It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life."

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"It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life."

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Amber Hurdle

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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Amber Hurdle

"Anything that ends is a dream. This whole universe is a dream."

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Amber Hurdle

"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

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Amber Hurdle

"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."

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Amber Hurdle

"People always make choices, always take sides!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

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Amber Hurdle

"O fortune fortune! all men call thee fickle."

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Amber Hurdle

"Many homes are on the rocks today because God has been left out of the domestic picture. With the clash of personalities in a domestic pattern, there must be an integrating force, and the living God is that Force!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind."

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"But there are some wounds that can never be healed."
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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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"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."
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"I like poking my nose into other people's lives."
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"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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"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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