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Christina Stead Inspirational Quotes (44)

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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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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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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.
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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
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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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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.
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A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
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Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
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Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.
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The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.
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A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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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.
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No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.
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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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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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A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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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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