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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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  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.286, Head of Zeus

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

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  Money

  Christina Stead (1948). “A little tea, a little chat”

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• I do not want to go to heaven; I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good happy wife, that is all I ask, but not paradise; earth is good enough for me: it is because I believe earth is heaven, Naden, that I can overcome all my troubles and face down my enemies.

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  Art, Children, Believe

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• Old age and youth cannot live together.

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  Age, Together, Youth

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.116, The Miegunyah Press

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• The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.

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  Cities, White, Racism

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.133, Head of Zeus

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• 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.

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  Race, Reason, Repetition

  Christina Stead (1992). “A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973”, Angus & Robertson Publishers

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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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  Art, Women, Want

  Christina Stead (1966). “Dark Places of the Heart”

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• 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.

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  Wizards, Finance, Tricks

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.179, Open Road Media

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• A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?

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  Girl, Thinking, Single Girl

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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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  Men, Widows, Rich

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.322, Open Road Media

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

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  Women, Lying, Slave

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.44, Head of Zeus

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• The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.

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  Religious, Son, Knowing

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.147, Head of Zeus

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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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  Hands, Making Money, Easy

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• Each Australian is a Ulysses.

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  Australia, Ulysses, Australian

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.255, The Miegunyah Press

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• To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.

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  Book, Cutting, House

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• Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

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  Art, Women, Loneliness

  Christina Stead (1966). “Dark Places of the Heart”

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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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  Mind, Feminism, Theory

  Christina Stead (2012). “Letty Fox: Her Luck”, p.491, Open Road Media

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• Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.864, Open Road Media

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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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  Should Have, Revolution, Misery

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.199, Open Road Media

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• A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is growing up, and I certainly licked the hide off her; and she's seen marriage at its worst, and now she's dreaming about 'supermen' and 'great men'. What is the good of doing anything for them?

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  Mother, Dream, Art

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.286, Head of Zeus

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• The more we know, the better our intuitions.

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  Intuition, Knows

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• Venus can see at night without eyes.

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  Eye, Night, Venus

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.39, The Miegunyah Press

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• 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.

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  Girl, Art, Jobs

  Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.85, Head of Zeus

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• 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.

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  Money, People, Gold

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.

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  Men, Primitive Man, Dawn

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.122, Open Road Media

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