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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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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 dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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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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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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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 speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.
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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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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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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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Each Australian is a Ulysses.
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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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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
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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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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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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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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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