Janet Frame...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.
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The place that makes all the difference is where we create our own path and choose to follow it. It is not where we go but how we get there, and this is determined by our individual and solitary selves.
Source: Janet Frame: An Autobiography
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