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The ideal of non-attachment has been preached again and again in the course of the last 3000 years. It is found in Hinduism, the teachings of Buddha, the doctrine of Lao Tsu, in the philosophy of the Greek Stoics.

— Patrick White Australians in a Nuclear War (1983)

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We must cure ourselves of the habit of war.

Australians in a Nuclear War (1983)

Possibly all art flowers more readily in silence.

The Prodigal Son (1958)

Conversation is imperative if gaps are to be filled, and old age, it is the last gap but one.

The Tree of Man (1955)

If she had only been able to touch him, they might perhaps have pooled their secrets and discovered the reason for human confusion. But as that wasn't possible, she went outside, into the garden.

The Burnt Ones (1964)

And that is why I am anathema to certain kinds of Australian intellectual. I've lost interest in the theatre because you can't get what you want ever.

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