To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.
Christina SteadWe 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 SteadFinanciers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.
Christina Stead