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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
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Christina Stead
Age: 80 †
Born: 1902
Born: July 17
Died: 1983
Died: March 31
Novelist
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Short Story Writer
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Rockdale City
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If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.
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There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds and, of course, until they have some.
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If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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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.
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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
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Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.
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money that is in billions and monopolies isn't money at all, because the people have none, and money is democratic, everyone has to have some or there's none at all.
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