THE EXHAUSTION OF ANGER

'I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was anger.'
Helen Garner, The Spare Room, p.135.

WE ALL LIVE UNDER A TOTALITARIAN REGIME

'Reading Luke's Gospel I see why Steiner is so terribly wrong when he says that only people living under totalitarian regimes can produce art worthy of the name. We all live under the totalitarian regime of the world's evil. And it's in the terms in which our own culture manifests it that we have to expresss our struggle against it, our longings for glimpses of good.'

Helen Garner, How to End a Story:Collected Diaries, p.419.