Christina Stead Short Quotes

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Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that.

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I wouldn't mind being your partner if there were two of me.

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Women have been brought up much like slaves, that is, to lie.

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Other countries have history; we have nothing but contradictions.

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Sell, he can. He can sell last week's bait for tomorrow's halibut.

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And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!

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A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

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Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.

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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

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A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.

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It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

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I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.

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I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.

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A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.

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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 equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.

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Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.

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All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.

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Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.

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Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.

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I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!

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All your fine officials debauch the young girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.

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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go round.

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Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

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There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some.

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It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.

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Why, if all the rich men in the world divided up their money amongst themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go round.

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You were trained to live in a society which doesn't exist, because no society is the same between yesterday and tomorrow.

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It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The façade is everything.

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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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