Patrick White Short Quotes

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Loonies speak their own language, like educated people.

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

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The essence of what you have to say you pick up before you're twenty.

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To kiss and to kill are similar words to eyes that focus with difficulty.

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His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.

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Conversation is imperative if gaps are to be filled, and old age, it is the last gap but one.

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In all directions stretched the great Australian Emptiness, in which the mind is the least of possessions.

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There's many benefits from a good read, just as some must sing a lungful of psalm, or take the bottle down from the shelf.

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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.

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The mystery of life is not solved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.

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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.

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Inspiration descends only in flashes, to clothe circumstances; it is not stored up in a barrel, like salt herrings, to be doled out.

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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.

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If she had only been able to touch him, they might perhaps have pooled their secrets and discovered the reason for human confusion. But as that wasn't possible, she went outside, into the garden.

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