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title: "1 Kitchen Floor Quotes By Patrick White"
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> [“Life doesn't end on the kitchen floor while there is the will to dance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-white/life-doesn-t-end-on-the-kitchen-floor-while-there-is-the-will-to-dance/)

[Patrick White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-white/)

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## More by Patrick White

> [“At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for strangers, to distinguish these occasions.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-white/at-times-his-arrogance-did-resolve-itself-into-simplicity-though-it/)

[Patrick White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-white/)

> [I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-white/i-developed-the-habit-of-writing-novels-behind-a-closed-door-or-at-my/)

[Patrick White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-white/)

> [“There are moments when the eyes flow into each other. Then the souls are wrapped around each other across a distance”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-white/there-are-moments-when-the-eyes-flow-into-each-other-then-the-souls/)

[Patrick White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-white/)

> [“The worst thing about love between human beings is that when you are prepared to love them they don't want it; when they do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-white/the-worst-thing-about-love-between-human-beings-is-that-when-you-are/)

[Patrick White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-white/)

> [In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-white/in-fact-i-enjoyed-every-minute-of-my-life-at-king-s-especially-the/)

[Patrick White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-white/)

> [Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-white/because-he-had-nothing-to-hide-he-did-perhaps-appear-to-have/)

[Patrick White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-white/)

> [She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-white/she-would-have-liked-to-sit-upon-a-rock-and-listen-to-words-not-of/)

[Patrick White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-white/)

> [“Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers of easy-come-by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-white/superficially-my-war-was-a-comfortable-exercise-in-futility-carried/)

[Patrick White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-white/)

> [To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-white/to-understand-the-stars-would-spoil-their-appearance/)

[Patrick White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-white/)

> [My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-white/my-father-and-mother-were-second-cousins-though-they-did-not-meet/)

[Patrick White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-white/)

> [Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-white/then-about-1951-i-began-writing-again-painfully-a-novel-i-called-in/)

[Patrick White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-white/)

> [“Where have you been, Theodora?," Mrs Goodman asked. "Walking, Mother." "And whom did you see?" Mrs Goodman flung her grammar like a stone. "I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-white/where-have-you-been-theodora-mrs-goodman-asked-walking-mother-and/)

[Patrick White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-white/)

> [I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-white/i-expect-we-are-all-jealous-of-the-women-in-their-past-but-how-much/)

[Patrick White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-white/)

> [Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-white/probably-induced-by-the-asthma-i-started-reading-and-writing-early-on/)

[Patrick White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-white/)

> [“He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divine power, a frail god upon a rickety…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-white/he-himself-he-realized-had-always-been-most-abominably-frightened/)

[Patrick White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-white/)

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