"In spite of holidays when I was free……" — Patrick White
"In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school."
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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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More Colonial Quotes
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In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial…
— Unknown Author
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department…
— Paul Robeson
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Britain needs a real push. It needs nationalism. The sort of spirit that comes during a war. It needs people…
— Ratan Tata
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We thought everybody knew by now that barrel length has almost nothing to do with accuracy. I believe the myth…
— Jeff Cooper
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Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic…
— Karl Marx
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What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to…
— Newt Gingrich
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We…
— Abdul Kalam
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The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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From the earliest colonial days [in America], local governments took responsibility for their poor. However, able-bodied men and women generally…
— Thomas G. West
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The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we…
— Gertrude Himmelfarb
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