"If I have not lost my mind I……" — Patrick White
"If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect"
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20 Quotes by Patrick White
Patrick White has 20 quotes on this site.
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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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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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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very…
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More Defect Quotes
This quote is filed under Defect Quotes,
one of 148 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it…
— Teresa of Avila
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It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
— Max Beerbohm
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There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are…
— Chaz Bono
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I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.
— Roberto Cavalli
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As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to…
— Thomas Aquinas
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The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some…
— John Jay Chapman
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In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to…
— John Desmond Bernal
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Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.
— Rumi
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In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English…
— John Desmond Bernal
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure;…
— Mark Twain
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