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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

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
Wander
Animal
Art
Observer
Wandering
Unimportant
Observers

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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 tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
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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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The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
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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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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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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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The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.
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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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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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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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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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The Chinese are a knowing people and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.
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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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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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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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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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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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