Christina Stead Quotes
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I saw my entire life a waste, a desert of shame and unspeakable sorrow, and behind me, a suicided wife!
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I know,” he said with sudden bitterness, “because your mother’s game is working after all. She is turning you against me.” “No,” said Louie. He looked at her pityingly, “No, I know you don’t know it, Looloo.
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She soon reached a point when she could not sit at the table with him and listen to his misbegotten notions and morality with its mistaken examples.
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I love you, I love men and women, I love little children and all innocent things, I love, I feel I am love itself - how could I pick out a woman who would hate me so much!
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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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When a woman hates, she will wreck a dozen lives to pay back what she conceives to be some injury.
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I’m an old woman, your mother’s an old woman, so I’ll be an old woman, and I’ll do what I please.
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Perhaps I have made a mistake, but Heaven knows I have been faithful to my marriage vows.” She chuckled, “The more fool you!
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Don’t call humans rats - rats are superior.
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You see when a man knows he will be old, he is afraid: when he becomes old, he cares for nothing - love does not count, only comfort; honor does not count, only cheating for a niche.
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The children hid themselves, with receptive ears, round corners.
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Where, in all the self-righteous lying world, could she turn for a friend? She even thought angrily of her children - they were simply eating up her flesh as they had when they were at the breast, no less.
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And the three women, after crying, felt united in a love.
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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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About the girls she only thought of marriage, and about marriage she thought as an ignorant, dissatisfied, but helpless slave did of slavery.
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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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For all education is outside, not inside, the schoolroom.
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The entire gamut of scandal, hate, and lying is prepared for a poor man in this world who dares to work for the truth. That is why they got rid of me too: they feared me, for wickedness fears Truth.
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Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on - I like naked ladies naked.
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If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.