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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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"If God fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society."

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"The 'Wild West' is a good description of law enforcement in the desert southwest USA."

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"The world is "sick" with loneliness in spite of multitudes of people living in it."

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"Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment."

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"When I had a look at the lights of Broadway by night, I said to my American friends : "What a glorious garden of wonders this would be, to any who was lucky enough to be unable to read."

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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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"I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence."
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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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"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 like poking my nose into other people's lives."
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"It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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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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