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To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.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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More quotes by Christina Stead
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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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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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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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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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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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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A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
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Each Australian is a Ulysses.
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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 woman is a hunter without a forest.
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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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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 speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.
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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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If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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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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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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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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