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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.
— Christina Stead
They say that we are all haunted by a Spiritual Presence, of whose existence we are only fitfully and sometimes never conscious,
— William T. Stead
About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
— Christina Stead
Anyway,' Sherm said quietly, 'people fake stuff all the time.
— Rebecca Stead
Anyone who's familiar with my writing schedule knows that there is always plenty of time between books for me!
— Rebecca Stead
so mom got the postcard today
— Rebecca Stead
If you was my wife, she say, I'd cover you up with kisses stead of licks, and work hard for you too.
— Alice Walker
The duty of a journalist is the duty of a watchman.
— William Thomas Stead
I have nothing like a writing routine. I sometimes have trouble buckling down to write at home.
— Rebecca Stead
Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.
— Christina Stead
Sometime it last in love but sometime it hurt in stead.
— Irfan Syamil
We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our stead.
— George R R Martin
Why don't you and Patrick actually talk to each other?" Tab said. Em looked up. "Are you demented? And say what?
— Rebecca Stead
I guess my question is: Is the new you the stranger? Or is the stranger the person you leave behind? -Sherm
— Rebecca Stead
Try really, really hard not to judge your own work too harshly.
— Rebecca Stead
Life was anything but fast, in your opinion. If it went any more slowly, time would probably start to run backward.
— Rebecca Stead
Every published writer suffers through that first draft because most of the time, that's a disappointment.
— Rebecca Stead
Mostly what I try to do is build emotion. Only I'd prefer not to do it by telling you about emotion but by pushing that emotion down.
— Rebecca Stead
I try to write about internal experience versus the external self. I like to present ideas, but not package them neatly.
— Rebecca Stead
Nice tights, I snorted. Or I tried to snort, anyway. I'm not exactly sure how, though people in books are always doing it.
— Rebecca Stead
You can have it all, but you can't have it all at once.
— Rebecca Stead
It soaked into me like water into sand, fast and heavy-making.
— Rebecca Stead
It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission.
— Rebecca Stead
My books tend to have a lot of questions in them, and they tend to avoid black and white, for lack of a better metaphor.
— Rebecca Stead
Money has no country.
— Christina Stead
If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
— Christina Stead
A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
— Christina Stead
My kids really like food, and they like to cook, so it's a lot of fun to shop with them.
— Rebecca Stead
It was hard to imagine him sneaking around and leaving a rose on anyone's doormat, but I guess boys will surprise you sometimes.
— Rebecca Stead
My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
— A. N. Wilson
A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.
— Christina Stead
The wonderful thing about writing fiction is that no one is stopping you. There's no one saying, 'You can't do that.'
— Rebecca Stead
A woman is a hunter without a forest.
— Christina Stead
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other.
— Rebecca Stead
'Middle school' is used as shorthand for a time when things change. It's a time a lot of kids feel like they don't even have one good friend.
— Rebecca Stead
During the week,I'm really focused on writing and output. Sunday is a day when I really try not to write at all.
— Rebecca Stead
The more we know, the better our intuitions.
— Christina Stead
I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!
— Christina Stead
Love is when you like someone so much that you can't just call it "like," so you have to call it "love.
— Rebecca Stead
There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds; and, of course, until they have some.
— Christina Stead
It is, actually," Sherm said, looking her straight in the eyes, the way he had during the intruder drill. "Best thing ever.
— Rebecca Stead
Rachel; and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah,
— Margaret Atwood
Women have been brought up much like slaves, that is, to lie.
— Christina Stead
Men never believe a woman can do anything.
— Christina Stead
I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.
— Dave Van Ronk
I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.
— Rebecca Stead
Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.
— Christina Stead
Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.
— Christina Stead
A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
— Christina Stead
There was no black line separating Colorado from Utah. There was no black line between friendship and whatever might come next.
— Rebecca Stead
The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.
— Francis Atterbury
But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.
— Christina Stead
We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.
— Christina Stead
It is most oppressive to be an aunt.
— Christina Stead
All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
— Christina Stead
I do try to write in ways that reflect reality, and I think that reality is rarely simple.
— Rebecca Stead
A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
— Christina Stead
And gold has no name, it licks the hand of anyone who has it: good dog!
— Christina Stead
The hand of Vengeance found the Bed To which the Purple Tyrant fled The iron hand crush'd the tyrant's head And became Tyrant in his stead.
— William Blake
The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.
— Christina Stead
I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead.
— Dennis Lehane
Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
— Christina Stead
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
— John Vianney
Listening, you reflect that you are probably the worst person on the planet. But this is not exactly news.
— Rebecca Stead
Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
— Christina Stead
Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
— M.M. Kaye
That was the nature of presents. You kept them in the giver's stead. They were a small part of that person to keep.
— Paul Magrs
If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.
— Christina Stead
I would say I am an ordinary bowler but one with a really big heart, and that's what has stood me in good stead in all these years.
— Harbhajan Singh
A lot of my ideas for books come from newspaper articles. But I don't like to be actively looking for ideas.
— Rebecca Stead
Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.
— Christina Stead
Since Dr. Rajif was on vacation, I attended in his stead.
— Victoria Sweet
It's crazy the things a person can pretend not to notice.
— Rebecca Stead
It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity.
— Christina Stead
Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
— Christina Stead
Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectualmasters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe. — Christina Stead
Old age and youth cannot live together.
— Christina Stead
Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.
— Christina Stead
A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
— Christina Stead
