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Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was an Australian writer who, from 1935 to 1987, published 12 novels, three short-story collections and eight plays.

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Life is full of alternatives but no choice.

Alternatives, Choice, Choices, Full, Life, Life Is

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

Appearance, Spoil, Stars

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

Appear, Forfeited, Honesty, Irony, Littles

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.

Bed, Exciting, Expect, Jealous, Kept, Past

She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.

Listen, Men, Poetic, Rocks, Sit, Sleep

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

Acceptable, Imagination, Truth, Truth Is

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

Lost, Mind, Preparing, Sometimes

She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.

Brought, Craved, Kind, Literature, Protection, Stories

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