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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.
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
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Rockdale City
Fine
Debauch
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Officials
Jobs
Washington
Art
Younger
Women
Girls
Afraid
Lose
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I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!
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A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.
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Financiers 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.
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Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.
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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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Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.
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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.
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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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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is growing up, and I certainly licked the hide off her and she's seen marriage at its worst, and now she's dreaming about 'supermen' and 'great men'. What is the good of doing anything for them?
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It is most oppressive to be an aunt.
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No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.
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Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
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A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable, would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my old cough every winter? I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great-I-Am.
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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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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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