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Christina Stead, born on July 17, 1902, and died on March 31, 1983, was an accomplished novelist from Australia. Her works are renowned for their profound social insight and unique narrative style, primarily focusing on the daily life of Australia and the United States in the mid-20th century.

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Famous Christina Stead Quotes

“Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money. ... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere - and we want to be terribly possessed - anyhow; or what is life?”

Ifs Want Passion Money Secret Jealous Possessed Mistress Secret Life Possessive What Is Life

Book:A little tea, a little chat

Source: A little tea, a little chat

“If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.”

Ifs Should Revolution Should Have Misery Contrary Revolt

Book:House of All Nations

Source: House of All Nations

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

Ifs Knows Kind Imagination Memories Tangled

Book:Letty Fox: Her Luck

Source: Letty Fox: Her Luck

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

Ifs Humans Reason Would Be Law Natural Lawyer Equity

Book:House of All Nations

Source: House of All Nations

“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.”

Ifs Asks Tricks Finance Wizards

Book:House of All Nations

Source: House of All Nations

“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.”

Ifs Would Be Easy Streets Towns Upset Shopping Principal Abyss

Book:For Love Alone

Source: For Love Alone

“A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.”

Ifs Men Dies Rich Right Time Widows Speculators

Book:House of All Nations

Source: House of All Nations

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

People Ifs World Enough Wealth Money Business Rich Economics Divided Rich People Funny Money Rich Money

Author:Christina Stead

About the Author

Born: July 17, 1902
Died: March 31, 1983
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 82

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A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973Related source material

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