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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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Christina Stead
Age: 80 †
Born: 1902
Born: July 17
Died: 1983
Died: March 31
Novelist
Politician
Short Story Writer
Translator
Writer
Rockdale City
Intelligent
Freaks
Waste
Egotism
Show
Cynicism
Art
Delightful
Shows
Freak
Money
Romantic
Men
Insane
Life
Brilliant

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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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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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Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.
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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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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.
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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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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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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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If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
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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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Each Australian is a Ulysses.
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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 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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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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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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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
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