Christina Stead Quotes
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She said, her children should not live on trash, her children had to fight for their livings, having such a silly, puffed-up ignoramus of a father, her girls were not going to be underfed “mud rats.”
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She knows that soon she will have escaped into the world of the people better than us, the great objective world better than Shakespeare and Beethoven and Donatello put together—didn’t they all come out of it?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Don’t call humans rats - rats are superior.
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For all education is outside, not inside, the schoolroom.
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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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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
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All men are dogs
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The children hid themselves, with receptive ears, round corners.
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Our old age is perhaps life’s decision about us - or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.
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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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Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on - I like naked ladies naked.
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Old age is perhaps life's decision about us ...
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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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When he was away she could stand him, and the farther he was away the more she could stand him!
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Whatever men say, women know;
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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.
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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.