Flaws in the Glass is Australian writer Patrick White's autobiography, published in 1981.

The "Journeys" are a colourful description of White and Manoly's movement about the Greek mainland and its many islands.

If you are pure, innocent, or noble — qualities I don't lay claim to — perhaps you never develop passionate antipathies.

The final section illustrates White's prickly, socialist, republican, and poetic agenda.

[4] "My pursuit of that razor-blade truth has made me a slasher", White concludes, "Not that I don't love and venerate in several senses – before all, pureness of heart and trustfulness.