Top 78 Christina Stead Quotes

#1. Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on - I like naked ladies naked.

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#2. The more we know, the better our intuitions.

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

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

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#5. Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

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#6. 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 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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#7. A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.

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#8. Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.

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#9. Strange is the influence of Marx on character.

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#10. 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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#11. It is most oppressive to be an aunt.

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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.

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#15. Venus can see at night without eyes.

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#16. To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.

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#17. 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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#18. 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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#19. And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!

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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.

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

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#24. 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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#25. 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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#26. A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.

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#27. Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

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

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#29. Women have been brought up much like slaves, that is, to lie.

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#30. 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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#31. 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.

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#32. A woman is a hunter without a forest.

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

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

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#35. Old age is perhaps life's decision about us ...

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#36. 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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#37. About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

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#38. 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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#39. 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.

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#40. 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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#41. Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.

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#42. The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.

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#43. Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.

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#44. 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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#45. 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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#46. Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

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#47. 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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#48. Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

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#49. Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.

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#50. Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that. Why was I ever born?

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#51. 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.

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#52. A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?

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

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#54. The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.

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

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#57. The great white city of brotherhood, Washington ...

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#58. 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?

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#59. Money has no country.

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#60. Men never believe a woman can do anything.

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

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#62. A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.

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

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#64. Old age and youth cannot live together.

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#65. Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.

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#66. A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.

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

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

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#71. Each Australian is a Ulysses.

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

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#73. All the June Saturday afternoon Sam Pollit's children were on the lookout for him as they skated round the dirt sidewalks and seamed old asphalt of R Street and Reservoir Road that bounded the deep-grassed acres of Tohoga House, their home.

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

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

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#76. If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

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#77. Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

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

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