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To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.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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If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
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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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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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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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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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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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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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A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
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It is most oppressive to be an aunt.
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Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
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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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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 speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.
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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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Each Australian is a Ulysses.
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A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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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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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
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