Christina Stead Zitate

Christina Ellen Stead war eine australische Schriftstellerin.

Stead war ausgebildete Lehrerin und lebte von 1928 bis 1974 in den USA und Europa.

Thema ihrer Romane und Erzählungen ist die menschliche Suche nach persönlicher Freiheit und Liebe. Besonders bekannt wurde die 1940 erschienene, auf autobiografischem Material beruhende Studie einer Kindheit The man who loved children. Das Time Magazine nahm den Roman in die TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 auf. 1982 wurde sie als Ehrenmitglied in die American Academy of Arts and Letters gewählt. Wikipedia

✵ 17. Juli 1902 – 31. März 1983

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“Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on—I like naked ladies naked.”

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Christina Stead buch Miss Herbert

Quelle: Miss Herbert

“And Nelly turned to her and laughed a horrible laugh. She startled herself. She paused to light another cigarette, choking, blowing a cloud to hide her face; and when she could, continued in a gentle voice:
"You will do me a favour? Save me from disillusionment. Let the man coming back with you on Wednesday be a sensible man, who admits it all, defeat and hopelessness and the bitterness; but sanity." "But I don't know why I should," said Camilla, seriously.
"Won't you do what I ask, love? I know him, poor lad. I know what's best. I don't want him roaming the countryside, footloose and aimless and perhaps in some pub, on some roadside pick up some other harpy, instead of swallowing the bitter pill and facing the lonely road."”

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Christina Stead buch Dark Places of the Heart

Dark Places of the Heart (aka Cotters' England) (1966)

“They went on playing quietly and waiting for Sam (who had gone back to the bedroom to seek Tommy) and for their turns to see Mother. Bonnie meanwhile, with a rueful expression, was leaning out the front window, and presently she could not help interrupting them, 'Why is my name Mrs Cabbage, why not Mrs Garlic or Mrs Horse Manure?' They did not hear her, so intent were they, visiting each other and inquiring after the health of their respective new babies. They did not hear her complaining to Louie that, instead of being Mrs Grand Piano or Mrs Stair Carpet, they called her Garbage, 'Greta Garbage, Toni Toilet,' said she laughing sadly, 'because they always see me out there with the garbage can and the wet mop; association in children's naïve innocent minds you see!'
'Oh no, it isn't that, protested Louie, Garbage is just a funny word: they associate you with singing and dancing and all those costumes you have in your trunk!”

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Christina Stead buch The Man Who Loved Children

'Do you think so?' Bonnie was tempted to believe. 'Mrs Strip Tease?'
The Man Who Loved Children (1940)

“How suburban!' cried Elvira. I was in Hampstead the other day: in front of one of the richest houses was a crazy pavement: they paid about £35 for it, doubtless. The man who would have done it best was in an asylum : he would have done it for nothing, happy to do it, and the more there is of it, the more dull and plain it looks, just an expanse of conventional craziness, looking as stupid as a neanderthal skull. That's the suburbs all over. That's what we are, you see: suburban, however wild we run. You know quite well, in yourself, don't you, two people like us can't go wild? Still, it's nice to pretend to, for a while.”

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Christina Stead buch The Beauties and Furies

The Beauties and Furies (1936)

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