Handbags Quote by Patrick White

““Mrs. Trotter made a sincere though wrong sound, while opening her handbag to look for help.””

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“At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for strangers, to distinguish these occasions.”

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

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“There are moments when the eyes flow into each other. Then the souls are wrapped around each other across a distance”

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“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…

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

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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…

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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…

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“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…

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To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

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

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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into…

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“Where have you been, Theodora?," Mrs Goodman asked. "Walking, Mother." "And whom did you see?" Mrs Goodman flung her grammar like a stone. "I…

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Envy the kangaroo. That pouch setup is extraordinary; the baby crawls out of the womb when it is about two inches long, gets into…

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Elizabeth Taylor was never told what to wear or paid to carry a certain handbag,

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