Patrick White quotes
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“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.”
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“To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.”
-- Patrick WhiteSource : Patrick White (2011). “Voss”, p.137, Random House
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“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 WhiteSource : Patrick White (2011). “Voss”, p.63, Random House
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“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 WhiteSource : Patrick White (1979). “The Twyborn Affair: A Novel”, Vintage
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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, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.”
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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.”
-- Patrick WhiteSource : Patrick White (2011). “The Aunt's Story”, p.137, Random House
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“I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.”
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“Don't. Please, just let me hold you a little bit longer," he mumbled into my hair”
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“Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.”
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“Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.”
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“Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.”
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Source : "White Noise". Book by Don DeLillo, 1985.
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