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Each Australian is a Ulysses.

Christina Stead

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Christina Stead
Age: 80 †
Born: 1902
Born: July 17
Died: 1983
Died: March 31
Novelist
Politician
Short Story Writer
Translator
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Rockdale City
Ulysses
Australian
Australia

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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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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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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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If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
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The Chinese are a knowing people and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.
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Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
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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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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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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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I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!
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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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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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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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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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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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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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It is most oppressive to be an aunt.
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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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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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