Patrick White Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.”
-- Patrick White

#Honesty Quotes #Littles Quotes #Irony Quotes
“To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.”
-- Patrick White

#Stars Quotes #Appearance Quotes #Spoil Quotes
“She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.”
-- Patrick White

#Sleep Quotes #Men Quotes #Rocks Quotes
“I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.”
-- Patrick White

#Jealous Quotes #Past Quotes #Bed Quotes
“If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.”
-- Patrick White

#Imagination Quotes #Truth Is Quotes
“She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.”
-- Patrick White

#Literature Quotes #Stories Quotes #Kind Quotes
“If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect”
-- Patrick White

#Mind Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Lost Quotes
“Life is full of alternatives but no choice.”
-- Patrick White

#Choices Quotes #Alternatives Quotes #Life Is Quotes

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