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.
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
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…
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.
Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness. - Christina Stead
Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.
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
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.
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.
Radicalism is the opium of the middle class. - Christina Stead
Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.
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