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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.

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
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Cynicism
Art
Delightful
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Freak
Money
Romantic
Men
Insane
Life
Brilliant
Intelligent
Freaks
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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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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 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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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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Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.
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Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.
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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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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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Each Australian is a Ulysses.
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The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.
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I do not want to go to heaven I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good happy wife, that is all I ask, but not paradise earth is good enough for me: it is because I believe earth is heaven, Naden, that I can overcome all my troubles and face down my enemies.
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A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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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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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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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering 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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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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