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• When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

  Christina Stead

  Money, People, Gold

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.245, Open Road Media

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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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• 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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• 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 my insides out and live to tell the tale as well: idiots! It's simple, I'd drown myself... Why be in misery at the last?

  Christina Stead

  Art, Simple, Thinking

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• Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.

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  Mother, Trying, Papa

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.498, The Miegunyah Press

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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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• It is most oppressive to be an aunt.

  Christina Stead

  Aunt

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

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

  Christina Stead

  Hate, Compromise, Life Is

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.33, 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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• 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 morality.

  Christina Stead

  Love, Art, Men

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• Strange is the influence of Marx on character.

  Christina Stead

  Character, Strange, Influence

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

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  Strength, Art, Errors

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

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• People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.

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  People, Scandal, Finance

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.540, Open Road Media

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• Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable, would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my old cough every winter? I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great-I-Am.

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  Art, Pain, Winter

  "The Man Who Loved Children".

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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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• 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.

  Christina Stead

  Ideas, Law, League

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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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