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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

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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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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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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A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.
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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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Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.
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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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