"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?"

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

Christina Stead

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“Humor is the easiest to achieve; the 'heart' is always the toughest, because you can't tell people to feel a certain way.”
“Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.”
“The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the making of a portrait is all about.”
“I hate the word 'potential'-potential means you haven't gotten it done.”
“The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,â€ Dr. Poblocki said. â€œWhen does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?”
“If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.”
“She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa on the edge of a smile.”
“The human heart by nature seeks after God. There is a spiritual vacuum in every man until it is filled by Christ.”

Source : Richard Wurmbrand (2017). “Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.67, David C Cook

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