1.
Life is full of alternatives but no choice.
Patrick White
2.
If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.
Patrick White
3.
To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.
Patrick White
4.
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
5.
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
6.
If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect
Patrick White
7.
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
8.
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
