All writers - all beings - are exiles as a matter of course. The certa…

Janet Frame
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All writers - all beings - are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land. ✨ Janet Frame (2001). An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography, Womens PressLtd
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