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.

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  Money, Business, People

  House of All Nations (1938) "Credo"

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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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• 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.

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  Divorce, Men, Wife

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Money has no country.

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  Country, Money

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.180, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.

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  Girl, Dream, Women

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