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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.
Patrick White
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Patrick White
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 28
Died: 1990
Died: September 29
Autobiographer
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London
England
Patrick Victor Martindale White
Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray
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