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Helen Garner Quotes

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.
Helen Garner

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Category:
Australian Novelist Quotes
Date of Birth:
November 7, 1942
Nationality:
Australian
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