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To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.
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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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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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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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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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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If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
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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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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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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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Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
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Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.
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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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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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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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A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
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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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Intuition is not infallible it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.
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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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