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Patrick White Quotes

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

Stars, Appearance, Spoil

Patrick White (2011). “Voss”, p.137, Random House

Life is full of alternatives but no choice.

Choices, Alternatives, Life Is

Patrick White (2011). “The Aunt's Story”, p.137, Random House

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

Mind, Sometimes, Lost

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

Imagination, Truth Is, Acceptable

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

Honesty, Littles, Irony

She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.

Stories, Literature, Kind

She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.

Sleep, Men, Rocks

Patrick White (2011). “Voss”, p.63, Random House

I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.

Jealous, Past, Bed

Patrick White (1979). “The Twyborn Affair: A Novel”, Vintage

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