"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."

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Source : Patrick White (2011). “Voss”, p.63, Random House

Patrick White

#Sleep Quotes #Men Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.”
“My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.”
“I am the captain of my pain.”
“As a child, Kate hat once asked her mother how she would know she was in love. Her mother had said she would know she was in love when she would be willing to give up chocolate forever to be with that person for even an hour. Kate, a dedicated and hopeless chocoholic, had decided right then that she would never fall in love. She had been sure that no male was worth such privation.”
“I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“That's right, there's free beer in Irish paradise. Everyone's jealous.”
“According to the universal laws, the magician will form his own point of view about the universe which henceforth will be his true religion.”
“I think you can only be truly mad at someone you really love.”

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