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Patrick White

Patrick White

Australian Author

Born: May 28, 1912

Died: Sep 30, 1990

Did Life Me Myself School Writing

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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood. Patrick White

Faith Impossible Labeling Think Air Must Component Dividing Like Parts Understood Scientifically Trying Cannot Which Explain Them Breathed

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

Result School Country Mountains Asthma Asthmatic Way Visited Only House Owned Blue Sent Brief Sydney Violently

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 Writing Reading Nine Asthma Running About Poetry Induced Chiefly Efforts Literary Early Started Started Reading Plays

Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved. Patrick White

Myself School Lose Out London Could Had Particle Anonymous Another Version Loved Decided Afterwards Turn Should Even University

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels. Patrick White

Me Writing Unkindness Bad Would No-One Nobody Continue Did Just Which Produce Fortunately Novels Publishing Early Plays

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

Life Man Writing Beginning Tree Earth About Developed Began In The Beginning Which Again Sentence Then Painfully Novel

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