Christina Stead Quotes
Her poverty was naked on the empty streets, and if no one walked abroad she felt all the more ghastly, like a wretched sinner in the sight of God.
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Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.
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I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.
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There's something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every single gay parent desperately, passionately wanted to be a parent. That's neat, and I hope we can keep it that way.
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
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I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
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Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.
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The ratio of boys to girls is bad in three big countries in Asia: China, Vietnam, and India. It's worst in the north of India, where there's horrendous poverty. The number of girls in many of these places is so low that it has social consequences. You get young men without jobs and without women, and this leads to chaos and political danger. But the south of India is very different.
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It's incredibly important to me that you remember a song right after the first or second time you hear it. That something sticks to you, something that makes you feel, 'I need to hear that song again.' That's fundamental. Something you want again. And again.
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It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.
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Her poverty was naked on the empty streets, and if no one walked abroad she felt all the more ghastly, like a wretched sinner in the sight of God.
