Patrick White Quotes
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
| Name | Patrick White |
