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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.
Christina Stead
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Christina Stead
Age: 80 †
Born: 1902
Born: July 17
Died: 1983
Died: March 31
Novelist
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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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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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I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!
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To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.
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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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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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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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All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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