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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

Christina Stead

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Christina Stead
Age: 80 †
Born: 1902
Born: July 17
Died: 1983
Died: March 31
Novelist
Politician
Short Story Writer
Translator
Writer
Rockdale City
Overestimated
Gentlemen
Gentleman
Experience
Men

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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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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 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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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
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A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
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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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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 wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!
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The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.
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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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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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If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
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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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The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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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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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.
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