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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

Christina Stead

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Christina Stead
Age: 80 †
Born: 1902
Born: July 17
Died: 1983
Died: March 31
Novelist
Politician
Short Story Writer
Translator
Writer
Rockdale City
Blindness
Loneliness
Terrible
Art
Women

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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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I know your breed all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.
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A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.
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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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A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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