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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
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Rockdale City
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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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A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.
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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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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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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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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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It is most oppressive to be an aunt.
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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 tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
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To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.
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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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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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