Patrick Victor Martindale White (born Patrick White) on 28 May 1912 in Knightsbridge, London was a renowned British-born Australian author who wrote 12 novels, three story collections and eight plays from 1935 to 1987. Patrick White's fiction included humor, florid prose, and other contemporary mannerisms. In 1973 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Patrick White also received many other important honors and awards for poetry, drama, and fiction. In 2009 the Sydney Theater Company staged Patrick White's play The Season at Sarsaparilla. In 2010 White received posthumous recognition for his novel The Vivisector, which was shortlisted for the 1970 Lost Man Booker Prize. In 2011, Fred Schepisi's film The Eye of the Storm was released with a screenplay by Judy Morris starring Geoffrey Rush as son Basil, Judy Davis as daughter Dorothy and Charlotte Rampling as dying matriarch Elizabeth Hunter. played the part. It was the first screen adaptation of White's novel, which was instrumental in the Swedish panel selecting White as Nobel laureate. The film was very successful, while a chapter of his novel The Eye of the Storm, Wrath Picket, was refused print by about a dozen Australian publishers. Here are some interesting, entertaining, serious, thoughtful quotes by Patrick White.
I hope we're all envious of the women of our past, but how much less exciting would it be if women didn't keep the bed warm.
No animal suffers worse than humans.
Life is full of choices but there is no choice.
Understanding the stars would distort their shape.
If I haven't lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect.
Human relationships are as vast as the desert, they all demand courage.
If the truth is not acceptable then it becomes the imagination of others.
The secret of life is not to be saved by success, which is an end in itself, but by failure, by constant struggle, by becoming.
Life doesn't end on the kitchen floor when you feel like dancing.
Their narrative will ultimately be written by those who are troubled by it.
He initially started reading to escape from scary and unpleasant things. She continued because, in addition to story, literature brought with it a kind of gentleness that she longed for.
Anyway, I'm an old novelist whom hardly anyone reads, or even if they do, most of them don't understand what I'm reading about. I certainly wish I had never written Voss, which is going to be everyone's favorite.
The worst thing about love between humans is that while you are ready to love them when they don't want to, you can't bear the thought of when they do.
Kissing and hitting are similar words for eyes that focus with difficulty.
We will never become anything of a nation because we are too greedy and too stupid.
Tourists coming from abroad will not be impressed by a mediocre Bonnard, an unusual Braque or an unimportant Picasso.
The poem protests against academic pretense, as if the mystery of religious faith vanishes when it comes in contact with dogma.
On the surface my war was a relaxing exercise in futility conducted in a grand Scottish hotel amongst bridge players and easy-going whiskey drinkers. My chest drove me out of active service and into guilt, because I wrote two or these three novels for which I am now admired.
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