"Even if a university should turn out to……" — Patrick White
"Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved."
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20 Quotes by Patrick White
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Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that…
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To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.
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She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious,…
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I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women…
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If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.
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She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because,…
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If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect
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Life is full of alternatives but no choice.
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by…
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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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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief,…
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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about…
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God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so…
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
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