Patrick White ,quotes

Life is full of alternatives ...

Life is full of alternatives but no choice.

Patrick White 10.08.2025 21:15:39 21 quotes

She would have liked to sit u...

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.

Patrick White 10.08.2025 21:15:39 21 quotes

She had begun to read in the ...

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.

Patrick White 10.08.2025 21:15:39 21 quotes

I expect we are all jealous o...

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.

Patrick White 10.08.2025 21:15:39 21 quotes

I continued writing the bad p...

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

Patrick White 10.08.2025 21:15:39 21 quotes

My father and mother were sec...

My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

Patrick White 10.08.2025 21:15:39 21 quotes

Probably induced by the asthm...

Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.

Patrick White 10.08.2025 21:15:39 21 quotes

In fact I enjoyed every minut...

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

Patrick White 10.08.2025 21:15:39 21 quotes

I think it is impossible to e...

I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.

Patrick White 10.08.2025 21:15:39 21 quotes

I developed the habit of writ...

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

Patrick White 10.08.2025 21:15:39 21 quotes

I left for New York expecting...

I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

Patrick White 10.08.2025 21:15:39 21 quotes

I expect we are all jealous of...

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.

Patrick White 03.03.2018 03:03:03 21 quotes

Life is full of alternatives b...

Life is full of alternatives but no choice.

Patrick White 03.03.2018 03:03:03 21 quotes

If I have not lost my mind I c...

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

Patrick White 03.03.2018 03:03:03 21 quotes

She had begun to read in the b...

Patrick White 03.03.2018 03:03:03 21 quotes

If truth is not acceptable, it...

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

Patrick White 03.03.2018 03:03:03 21 quotes

She would have liked to sit up...

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.

Patrick White 03.03.2018 03:03:03 21 quotes

To understand the stars would ...

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

Patrick White 03.03.2018 03:03:03 21 quotes

Because he had nothing to hide...

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.

Patrick White 03.03.2018 03:03:03 21 quotes

When I was rising eighteen I p...

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.

Patrick White 19.07.2011 12:25:43 21 quotes

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