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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
Art
Observer
Wandering
Unimportant
Observers
Wander
Animal

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Each Australian is a Ulysses.
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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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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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Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.
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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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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
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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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Intuition is not infallible it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.
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A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.
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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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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 wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!
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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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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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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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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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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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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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