Patrick White Quotes
The map? I will first make it.
I am compelled into this country.
In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.
If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.
His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.
It was Sunday, and Mumma had gone next door with Lena and the little ones. Under the pepper tree in ...
Show MoreSuperficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...
Show MoreThey walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't ha...
Show MoreI forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.
As it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understa...
Show MoreLife is full of alternatives but no choice.
And the cavern of fire was enormous, labyrinthine, that received the man. He branched and flamed, gl...
Show MoreShe would have liked to love. It was terrible to think she had never loved her son as a man. Sometim...
Show MoreThe map? I will first make it.
I am compelled into this country.
In general,' Voss replied, 'it is necessary to communicate without knowledge of the language.
If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.
His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.
Voss could always, if necessary, fail to understand. But wounds will wince, especially in the salt a...
Show MoreAt times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for s...
Show MoreBut the purpose and nature are never clearly revealed. Human behaviour is a series of lunges, of whi...
Show MoreHe himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...
Show MoreI would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. ...
Show MoreSuperficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel am...
Show MoreIt was Sunday, and Mumma had gone next door with Lena and the little ones. Under the pepper tree in ...
Show MoreMrs. Trotter made a sincere though wrong sound, while opening her handbag to look for help.
Voss could always, if necessary, fail to understand. But wounds will wince, especially in the salt a...
Show MoreAt times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for s...
Show MoreBut the purpose and nature are never clearly revealed. Human behaviour is a series of lunges, of whi...
Show MoreHe himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divin...
Show MoreI would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. ...
Show MoreMrs. Trotter made a sincere though wrong sound, while opening her handbag to look for help.
They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't ha...
Show MoreLife is full of alternatives but no choice.
And the cavern of fire was enormous, labyrinthine, that received the man. He branched and flamed, gl...
Show MoreShe would have liked to love. It was terrible to think she had never loved her son as a man. Sometim...
Show MoreAs it is I'm a dated novelist, whom hardly anybody reads, or if they do, most of them don't understa...
Show MoreI forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.
