Christina Stead Quotes about Passion

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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

Passion, Optimistic, Creation

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?

Christina Stead

Money, Passion, Jealous

Christina Stead (1948). “A little tea, a little chat”

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.

Christina Stead

Struggle, Passion, Intelligent

Christina Stead (1992). “A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973”, Angus & Robertson Publishers