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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
Observers
Wander
Animal
Art
Observer
Wandering
Unimportant

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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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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 tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
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Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
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It is most oppressive to be an aunt.
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Each Australian is a Ulysses.
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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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To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.
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The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
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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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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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Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.
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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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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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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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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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