Patrick White Quotes

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.

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• When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Start

• There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Women
  • Man
  • Hero

• There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Man
  • Honest
  • Necessity

• We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Stop

• Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • God
  • Man
  • Relationship

• Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Fall
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Man
  • Black
  • Light

• We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Support

• What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Pain

• I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Writing
  • Interest
  • Directing

• I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Problems

• Writing is agony. I hate it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Writing
  • Hate
  • Agony

• Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• 'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Life
  • My Life
  • First

• I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Reading

• A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Man

• One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Daily

• You have to continue to smile through life. And it's good when you get to bring that out in a character.

  

  Jason Mitchell
  • Life
  • Good
  • Character

• Life is a marathon, not a sprint. It's about taking a bigger-picture approach.

  

  Ivanka Trump
  • Life
  • Approach
  • Marathon

• Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

  

  Lawrence Clark Powell
  • Live
  • Die

• The way I look at it, they're all part of my musical diary, and I can listen to any one of them and it will bring up memories of what was going on at that time.

  

  John Mayall
  • Up
  • Time
  • Memories

• We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • Time
  • Style
  • Library

• 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
  • Writing
  • Man