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Helen Garner Quotes

born 1942 Australia

Helen Garner (born November 7, 1942) is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist.

Australia
Journalists
Non-fiction authors
Novelists
Short story writers

Also known as: Garner, Helen

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14 quotes

'In my profession I have learned that women can bear more pain than men.'

'Didn't this used to be our dining-room table back at Sutherland Street, Frank?' said Kathleen.

Honour & Other People's Children (1980)

Our minds are not hopeful, thought Janet; but our nerves are made of optimistic stuff.

Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)

'What's funny?' said Pin, shifting uncomfortably in the hospital bed.

Honour & Other People's Children (1980)

Out in deep space the planets sweep, inexorable, along their splendid orbits. Maxine bowed her head. From now on she would take the gods' dictation.

Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)

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.

Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)

'Crap,' said Janet. 'He was a whinger and he wrote it down. That's not poetry.'

Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)

Ideas came swarming through her, and like many people who labour in the obsession of solitude, she lacked the detachment to challenge them.

Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)

Her handwriting in these pencilled jottings, made forty-five years ago, is exactly as it is today: this makes me suspect, when I am not with her, that she is a closet intellectual.

Postcards from Surfers (1985)

And always Melbourne, Melbourne, Melbourne, over and over the same photo in glaring greens and reds, of a tram, huffy, blunderous, manoeuvring itself with pole akimbo round the tight corner where Bourke Street enters Spring.

Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)

On Melbourne summer mornings the green trams go rolling in stately progress down tunnels thick with leaves: the bright air carries along the avenue their patient chime, the chattering of their wheels

Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)

Revolution begins in the kitchen.

'He claims,' said Jenny tactfully, 'That he flew through a radioactive cloud thirty years ago and that it didn't do him any harm - thus it's all right to mine uranium. A fine piece of Australian political reasoning.'

Honour & Other People's Children (1980)

'Course I care. I always care. But there's no point in making a song and dance about it, like that night he stayed here. Know something? There's only one thing that'll bring 'em back, and that's indifference. The one thing you can't fake.'

The Children's Bach (1984)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Helen Garner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.