I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.
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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
They prevented us from getting that first goal. Had we have gotten that maybe we would have got a little confidence and maybe come back.
Patrick White
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
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
Conversation is imperative if gaps are to be filled, and old age, it is the last gap but one.
Patrick White
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