Christina Stead Quote

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.


House of All Nations (1938)


When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business.... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in...

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business.... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in...

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business.... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in...

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business.... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in...