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To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.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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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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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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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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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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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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The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
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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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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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Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.
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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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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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