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Christina Stead Quotes: "If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around."

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



Christina Stead Quotes: "A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford."

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




Christina Stead Quotes: "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."

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.



Christina Stead Quotes: "Venus can see at night without eyes."

Venus can see at night without eyes.




Christina Stead Quotes: "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."

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.



Christina Stead Quotes: "Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic"

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic



Christina Stead Quotes: "About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal."

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.




Christina Stead Quotes: "Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness."

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.



Christina Stead Quotes: "Loneliness is a terrible blindness."

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.



Christina Stead Quotes: "Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience."

Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.



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

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



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

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




Christina Stead Quotes: "Each Australian is a Ulysses."

Each Australian is a Ulysses.



Christina Stead Quotes: "Radicalism is the opium of the middle class."

Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.



Christina Stead Quotes: "Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is."

Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.



Christina Stead Quotes: "I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory."

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



Christina Stead Quotes: "A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in."

A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.



Christina Stead Quotes: "I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington."

I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.



Christina Stead Quotes: "Money has no country."

Money has no country.



Christina Stead Quotes: "A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist."

A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.



Christina Stead Quotes: "All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes."

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



Christina Stead Quotes: "A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money."

A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.



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

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



Christina Stead Quotes: "Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift."

Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.



Christina Stead Quotes: "Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way."

Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.



Christina Stead Quotes: "Men never believe a woman can do anything."

Men never believe a woman can do anything.



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

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



Christina Stead Quotes: "Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist."

Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.



Christina Stead Quotes: "A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip."

A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.



Christina Stead Quotes: "If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers."

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



Christina Stead Quotes: "It is most oppressive to be an aunt."

It is most oppressive to be an aunt.



Christina Stead Quotes: "A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future."

A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.



Christina Stead Quotes: "I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!"

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



Christina Stead Quotes: "It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on."

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



Christina Stead Quotes: "Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life."

Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.



Christina Stead Quotes: "Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe."

Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.



Christina Stead Quotes: "We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality."

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.



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

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



Christina Stead Quotes: "I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy."

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



Christina Stead Quotes: "It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An abyss would open in the principal shopping street of every town."

It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An abyss would open in the principal shopping street of every town.



Christina Stead Quotes: "Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that."

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



Christina Stead Quotes: "Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers."

Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.



Christina Stead Quotes: "Strange is the influence of Marx on character."

Strange is the influence of Marx on character.



Christina Stead Quotes: "Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style."

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.



Christina Stead Quotes: "I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise."

I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.



Christina Stead Quotes: "All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor."

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.



Christina Stead Quotes: "Old age and youth cannot live together."

Old age and youth cannot live together.



Christina Stead Quotes: "Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare."

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



Christina Stead Quotes: "The white man in the tropics degenerates every day."

The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.