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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.

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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.

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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.

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Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.

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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.

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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

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Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.

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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

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I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Author

Born: May 28th, 1912

Died: September 30th, 1990

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