"I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down."

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Janet Frame

#Writing Quotes #Haunting Quotes

“Consciousness is not the ineluctable starting point for self-understanding because there is a difference between being conscious and understanding oneself as a conscious being. The difference is between being in a certain state and knowing oneself to be in a certain state.”

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“I never defended myself. Not once. I never said, "Excuse me? What gives you the right to insult and demean me?" I let them steal my dignity.”
“It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known.”
“I had been invited to speak after the lunch. But I did not go to the table until the feast ended, as I never like to eat or talk before speaking.”
“We must desire to be separated unto the Lord from the world and its evil system. We must reckon ourselves dead to sin and alive to God. This is true positionally, but it can be made true in our spiritual life only as we yield to the Holy Spirit's control.”
“I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.”
“For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.”
“Our daily battles are to get traffickers behind bars, but the war for the fate of elephants is far away from the field and our sweat, it is a war of values vs greed, where more elephants can be killed by a vote than by any gun.”

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