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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. ↗

— Helen Garner

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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. ↗

— Helen Garner

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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. ↗

— Helen Garner

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People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver. ↗

— Helen Garner

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I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

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My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

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When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. ↗

— George Washington

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Well, I'm at some kind of crossroads in my life and I don't know which way to take. It's not about money, I mean, because I'm established enough now as a writer to get a reasonable advance if I wanted to do fiction. ↗

— Helen Garner

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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. ↗

— Helen Garner

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