"My father and mother were second cousins, though……" — Patrick White
"My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage."
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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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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 Cousins Quotes
This quote is filed under Cousins Quotes,
one of 162 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.
— Bryan Clay
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Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a…
— Fanny Fern
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Win, lose or draw, you're all my cousins and I love you.
— Chill Wills
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I've got cousins galore, Mexicans just spread all their seeds and the women just pop them out
— Jessica Alba
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I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was…
— John Lewis
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Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of…
— William Ralph Inge
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In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has…
— Padma Lakshmi
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except…
— Wally Lamb
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I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
— Charles Farrar Browne
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A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth…
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.
— David Coverdale
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At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a…
— Steven Chu
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