Christina Stead Quotes

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• No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

  Christina Stead

  Divorce, Men, Wife

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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.

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  Money, Business, People

  House of All Nations (1938) "Credo"

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• Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.

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  Class, Radicalism, Middle

  Christina Stead (2012). “Letty Fox: Her Luck”, p.952, Open Road Media

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• 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, not delightful, not intelligent.

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  Art, Intelligent, Men

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.126, Open Road Media

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• A woman is a hunter without a forest.

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  Women, Hunters, Forests

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.84, The Miegunyah Press

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• Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.

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  Fear, Love Is

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.270, The Miegunyah Press

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• Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

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  Passion, Optimistic, Creation

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• I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.

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  Memories, Imagination, Tangled

  Christina Stead (2012). “Letty Fox: Her Luck”, p.137, Open Road Media

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• Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

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  Glasses, Imagination, Selfishness

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.95, Open Road Media

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• Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

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  Self, Charm, Forgetfulness

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.

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  Intuition, May, Messages

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• You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.

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  Success, Country, Ambition

  Christina Stead (2012). “I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

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  Art, Animal, Wander

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• Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere - and we want to be terribly possessed - anyhow; or what is life?

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  Money, Passion, Jealous

  Christina Stead (1948). “A little tea, a little chat”

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• A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.

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  Success, Real, Liars

  Christina Stead (2012). “Letty Fox: Her Luck”, p.106, Open Road Media

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• It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.

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  Creativity, Vanity, Creative

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• 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 telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.

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  Struggle, Passion, Intelligent

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

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• Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

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  Men, Gentleman

  Christina Stead (1948). “A little tea, a little chat”

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• it's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.

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  Money, Work, Unlucky

  Christina Stead (1948). “A little tea, a little chat”

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• Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.

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  Decision, Age, Old Age

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.147, Head of Zeus

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• The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.

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  Men, White Man, Colonialism

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.143, Head of Zeus

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• money that is in billions and monopolies isn't money at all, because the people have none, and money is democratic, everyone has to have some or there's none at all.

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  Money, People, Monopoly

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• A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.

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  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.286, Head of Zeus

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• There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some.

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  Mind, Feminism, Theory

  Christina Stead (2012). “Letty Fox: Her Luck”, p.491, Open Road Media

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• A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

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  Believe, Son, Men

  'House of All Nations' (1938) 'Credo'

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