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• Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.

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  Men, Primitive Man, Dawn

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.122, Open Road Media

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• Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.

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  Gentleman, Way, Outsiders

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.285, The Miegunyah Press

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• Men never believe a woman can do anything.

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  Believe, Men, Sexism

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.464, Open Road Media

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• Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

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  Clouds, Black, Golden

  Christina Stead (2012). “I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.

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  Drinking, Europe, Tea

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.419, The Miegunyah Press

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• Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.

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  Real, Likes, Obscenity

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.213, The Miegunyah Press

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• And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!

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  Dog, Money, Hands

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.246, Open Road Media

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• I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

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  Hate, Compromise, Life Is

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.33, The Miegunyah Press

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• 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, trees and rocks; and he, wretchedly waiting in the exterior halls, could not even get his finger on one tiny, tiny lever.

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  Art, Clouds, Rocks

  Christina Stead, Anita Segerberg (1994). “Christina Stead, Selected Fiction and Nonfiction”, UQP

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• Strange is the influence of Marx on character.

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  Character, Strange, Influence

  Christina Stead, Anita Segerberg (1994). “Christina Stead, Selected Fiction and Nonfiction”, UQP

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• Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.

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  Story Writers, Stories, Yukon

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• All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.

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  Money, Class, Shifting

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An abyss would open in the principal shopping street of every town.

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  Shopping, Upset, Towns

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.532, The Miegunyah Press

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• 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 herself, where all was yet only the night of senses and wild dreams, the work of passion going on.

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  Love, Dream, Art

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.83, The Miegunyah Press

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• I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.

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  Father, Wanted

  Christina Stead (2012). “Letty Fox: Her Luck”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.

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  Law, Yeah, Collections

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.107, The Miegunyah Press

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• Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable; an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.

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  Ideas, Law, League

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• It is most oppressive to be an aunt.

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  Aunt

  Christina Stead (1992). “A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973”, Angus & Robertson Publishers

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• Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that.

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  Life, Rags, Tag

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.117, Head of Zeus

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• If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.

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  Law, Would Be, Reason

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.188, Open Road Media

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• It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

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  Men, Hypocrisy, Boots

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.63, Head of Zeus

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• I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!

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  Men, Rights, Hypocrisy

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.279, Head of Zeus

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• A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.

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  Future, Youth, Conservatism

  Christina Stead (2012). “Letty Fox: Her Luck”, p.326, Open Road Media

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• All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.

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  Men, Class, Three

  Christina Stead (1936). “The beauties and furies”

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• Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.

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  Uplifting, Character, Order

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