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To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.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
Novelist
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Short Story Writer
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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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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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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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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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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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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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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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A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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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 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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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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I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!
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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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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.
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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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A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
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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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