Patrick White
Patrick White
Patrick Victor Martindale Whitewas an Australian writer who is widely regarded as one of the most important English-language novelists of the 20th century. From 1935 to his death, he published 12 novels, three short-story collections and eight plays...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 May 1912
CountryAustralia
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Here I hope to continue living, and while I still have the strength, to people the Australian emptiness in the only way I am able.
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During the early, comparatively uneventful months I hovered between London and New York writing too hurriedly a second novel, The Living and the Dead.
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In 1964, submerged by the suburbs reaching farther into the country, we left Castle Hill, and moved into the centre of the city.
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I have tried to celebrate the park, which means so much to so many of us, in The Eye of the Storm and in some of the shorter novels of The Cockatoos.
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I just had a great time out there. When you get chances, you've got to bury them, and I did.
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.
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We had probably three charges filed in the year and a half the law was in effect ... That roughly indicates the frequency of these offenses.