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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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To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.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 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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A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
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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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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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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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Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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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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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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A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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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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The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
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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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I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!
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It is most oppressive to be an aunt.
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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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