Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable, would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my old cough every winter? I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great-I-Am.
Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination. - Christina Stead
Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
- Christina Stead
A woman is a hunter without a forest. - Christina Stead
A woman is a hunter without a forest.
I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory. - Christina Stead
I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.
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 d… - Christina Stead
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 d…
Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare. - Christina Stead
Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.
Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic - Christina Stead
Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness. - Christina Stead
Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around. - Christina Stead
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.
Radicalism is the opium of the middle class. - Christina Stead
Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.
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