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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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More quotes by Christina Stead
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 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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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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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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Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.
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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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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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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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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 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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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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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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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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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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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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