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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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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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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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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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A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
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Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
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Each Australian is a Ulysses.
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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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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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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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I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!
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All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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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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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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A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is growing up, and I certainly licked the hide off her and she's seen marriage at its worst, and now she's dreaming about 'supermen' and 'great men'. What is the good of doing anything for them?
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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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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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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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