Christina Stead Quotes

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• If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.
• She was able to feel active creation going on around her in the rocks and hills, where the mystery of lust took place; and in…
• We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of…
• Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
• Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.
• I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.
• A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is…
• The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always…
• Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
• A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies,…
• Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.
• About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
• The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic,…
• Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my cough…
• I do not want to go to heaven; I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good happy wife, that…
• There are so may ways to kills yourself, they're just old-fashioned with their permanganate: do you think I'd take permanganate? I wouldn't want to burn…
• The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones,…
• If all the rich men in the world divided up their money amongst themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.
• A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has arich widow.

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