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Janet Paterson Frame ONZ, CBE, (August 28, 1924 - January 29, 2004) was a New Zealand writer. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your own bio in the forums. Explore books and films about Frame, Janet.

"Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination."

Frame, Janet on Fiction
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"For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction."

Frame, Janet on Persuasion
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"Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime."

Frame, Janet on Psychiatry
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"It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep."

Frame, Janet on Travel and Tourism
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