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Patrick White

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If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.


— Patrick White


#truth #imagination

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


#love #life

Life is full of alternatives but no choice.


— Patrick White


#fate #life #life

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.


— Patrick White


#closed #developed #dining #door #habit

I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.


— Patrick White


#american #city #down #every #expecting

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.


— Patrick White


#enjoyed #especially #every #fact #french

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


#countryside #english #english school #explore #four

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


#asthmatic #blue #brief #country #house

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


#age #asthma #chiefly #early #efforts

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.


— Patrick White


#again #began #beginning #called #developed






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During White's time at Cambridge he publiPatrick Whited a collection of poetry entitled The Ploughman and Other Poems and wrote a play named Bread and Butter Women which was later performed by an amateur group (which included his sister Suzanne) at the tiny Bryant's Playhouse in Sydney. In 1937 White's father died leaving him ten thousand pounds in inheritance. Here the young author thrived creatively for a time writing several unpubliPatrick Whited works and reworking Happy Valley a novel that he had written while jackarooing.

Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was an English-born Australian writer who is widely regarded as one of the most important English-language novelists of the 20th century. White's fiction employs humour florid prose shifting narrative vantage points and a stream of consciousness technique. In 1973 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature the only Australian to have been awarded the prize.

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