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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He was in the cockpit when the plane went down. We're very proud of him and all the folks who made sure our nation's Capitol was not a target. They did not take out a symbol of our democracy.Patrick White
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
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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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