Patrick White Quotes

الهواجس المتشابهه لا تنتاب الآخرين

The past is desirable, more often than not, because it can make no demands.

The essence of what you have to say you pick up before you're twenty.

Souls unite in the face of violence, if only on the common ground of frailty.

History is not acceptable until it has been sifted for the truth.

I can only stick my neck out and offer my humble beliefs. If I become an outsider by doing so, this won't be a great hardship as I've been that as far back as I can remember — something strange and unacceptable in the eyes of those who believe they see straight. At least it's given me courage of a kind, which I'd like every Australian to acquire.

Two people do not lose themselves at the identical moment, or else they might find each other, and be saved. It is not as simple as that.

كل أمرِ عذب ولين من السهل أن يُجرح

She would have liked to love. It was terrible to think she had never loved her son as a man. Sometimes her hands would wrestle together. They were supple, rather plump hands, broad and not yet dry. But wrestling like this together, they were papery and dried-up. Then she would force herself into some deliberate activity or speak tenderly to her good husband, offering him things to eat, and seeing to his clothes. She loved her husband. Even after the drudgery of love she could still love him. But sometimes she lay on her side and said, I have not loved him enough, not yet, he has not seen the evidence of love. It would have been simpler if she had been able to turn and point to the man their son, but she could not.

…stones, even, are smoother for the dust.

Loonies speak their own language, like educated people.

His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.

To make yourself, it is also necessary to destroy yourself.

They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to explain why. Here lay the great discrepancy between aesthetic truth and sleazy reality.

You have taken the important, essential core of the apple, including (one must not forget) the nasty pips, and scales (I do not know what you call those little things) which must be spat out.