Christina Stead Quotes
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What luck have I? I don’t suppose you’ll be anything but a cheap little accountant yourself - you haven’t any chance to make money with a father like that.
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Sam,' said Saul fervently, 'when you talk, you know you create a world.
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It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The façade is everything.
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He wanted to be angry, his mission was was to be angry, and he had nothing to be angry about; the world would not let him rave, this was the great injustice he suffered from.
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Instead, she looked vaguely about, sniffing that familiar smell of fresh dirtiness which belongs to mankind’s extreme youth, a pleasant smell to mothers. Henny had spent twelve years in that atmosphere.
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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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Why doesn’t he drop down dead? Was he sent by God to worry women?
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They never asked any reasons for their parents’ fights, thinking all adults unreasonable, violent beings, the toys of their own monstrous tempers and egotisms
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It is women who must clean up the mess men make, the mess everything makes
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Henny was beautifully, wholeheartedly vile: she asked no quarter and gave none to the foul world, and when she told her children tales of the villainies they could understand, it was not to corrupt them, but because, for her, the world was really so.
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"Nothing hurts me if I don’t want it to,” she told him.
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It was only much later that I found out hardness worked better than love.
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Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that. Why was I ever born?
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When we are born, we are studied, and deviations, if noxious to the species, are suppressed; good deviations are preserved. And furthermore, we bear our formula on our arm band!
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They were all eccentric, touched, ill-intentioned, ignorant, superstitious, avaricious, or full members of nitwitry.
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A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
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Wait till you’ve washed and scrubbed for a man for ten or twelve years.
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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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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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God, what we women have to put up with; and I’m not even allowed to complain.
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Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
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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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Tolstoy said that “each unhappy family is unhappy in a way of its own
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I do not know how I got through without breaking down, without my heart bursting from sorrow and shame.