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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
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Rockdale City
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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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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
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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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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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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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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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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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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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A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
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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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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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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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There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds and, of course, until they have some.
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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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Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.
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Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
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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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