The Vivisector Quotes

“There's nothing so inhuman as a human being.”
― Patrick White, The Vivisector

“They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to explain why. Here lay the great discrepancy between aesthetic truth and sleazy reality.”
― Patrick White, The Vivisector

“It was Sunday, and Mumma had gone next door with Lena and the little ones. Under the pepper tree in the yard Pa was sorting, counting, the empty bottles he would sell back: the bottles going clink clink as Pa stuck them in the sack. The fowls were fluffing in the dust and sun: that crook-neck white pullet Mumma said she would hit on the head if only she had the courage to; but she hadn't.”
― Patrick White, The Vivisector

“No animal suffers worse than a human being.”
― Patrick White, The Vivisector

“Mrs. Trotter made a sincere though wrong sound, while opening her handbag to look for help.”
― Patrick White, The Vivisector

“silence, simplicity and humility . . . the only proper state for the artist as for the human being,”
― Patrick White, The Vivisector