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T. H. White quotes about people

Indian Writer May 29, 1906 – January 17, 1964

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T. H. White quote: "It is good to put your life in other people's hands."
It is good to put your life in other people's hands. T. H. White
You know that eye-to-eye recognition, when two people look deeply into each other's pupils, and burrow to the soul? It usually comes before love. I mean the clear, deep, milk-eyed recognition expressed by the poet Donne. Their eyebeams twisted and did thread their eyes upon a double string. My father recognized that the Professor was a Troll, and the Professor recognized my father's recognition. Both of them knew that the Professor had eaten his wife. - The Troll T. H. White
Lancelot tried to have a Word. His Word was valuable to him not only because he was good, but also because he was bad. It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them. T. H. White
It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for. T. H. White
If God is supposed to be merciful,' [Arthur] retorted, 'I don't see why He shouldn't allow people to stumble into heaven, just as well as climb there T. H. White
There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws that are constant. It has no rules. T. H. White
T. H. White quote: "If people reach perfection they vanish, you know."
If people reach perfection they vanish, you know. T. H. White
T. H. White quote: "It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain..."
It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them. T. H. White

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