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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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Rockdale City
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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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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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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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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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A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.
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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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If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.
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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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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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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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To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.
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Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.
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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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It is most oppressive to be an aunt.
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Intuition is not infallible it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.
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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 woman is a hunter without a forest.
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