Christina Stead Quote

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.


A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973 (ed. 1992)


The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae,...

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae,...

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae,...

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae,...