“ I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers. For the young we scarcely exist unless we are unavoidable members of the same family, farting, slobbering, perpetually mislaying teeth and bifocals. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
“ 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 would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers… ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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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. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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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. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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“ I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers… ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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“ I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers… ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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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. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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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. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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“ Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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“ I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers… ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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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. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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“ I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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“ In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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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. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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“ The failure of The Aunt's Story and the need to learn a language afresh made me wonder whether I should ever write another word. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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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. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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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. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
- 3.4K
“ 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. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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“ I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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“ I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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“ In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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“ I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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“ Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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“ I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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“ The failure of The Aunt's Story and the need to learn a language afresh made me wonder whether I should ever write another word. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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“ Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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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. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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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. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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