Christina Stead Quotes
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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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Hair under the arms, for example, he said, should never be removed, for nature had put it there, and evidently it had some use. She had suddenly said, “You have too many children, Mr. Pollit.
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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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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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Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.
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Whatever men say, women know;
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For all education is outside, not inside, the schoolroom.
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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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Of course, the morning, every morning, was full of such incidents. That was family life. They were all able to get through the day without receiving any particular wounds; every such thing left its tiny scar, but their infant skins healed with wonderful quickness.
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I’ll find a way. There must be a way. And I’ll take my children from you. The man who loves children! You can have your own. That’s all you really care about