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Janet Frame
3 quotes
“What use the green river, the gold place, if time and death pinned human in the pocket of my land not rest from taking underground the green all-willowed and white rose and bean flower and morning-mist picnic of song in pepper-pot breast of thrush?”
Janet Frame (1924–2004) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Owls Do Cry, pt, 1, chap. 4, 1961
“From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction always toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.”
Janet Frame (1924–2004) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To the Is-land, chap. 1, ‘‘In the Second Place’’, 1982
“The word permanent... had its own kind of revenge on those who misused it, for the Bible said that nothing was permanent and everything came and went.”
Janet Frame (1924–2004) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To the Is-land, chap. 2, ‘‘In the Second Place’’, 1982