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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
Translator
Writer
Rockdale City
Fine
Debauch
Loses
Breed
Girl
Officials
Jobs
Washington
Art
Younger
Women
Girls
Afraid
Lose

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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.
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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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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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I do not want to go to heaven I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good happy wife, that is all I ask, but not paradise earth is good enough for me: it is because I believe earth is heaven, Naden, that I can overcome all my troubles and face down my enemies.
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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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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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If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
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You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.
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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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Each Australian is a Ulysses.
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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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