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Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.

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
Yearns
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Money

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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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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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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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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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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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Each Australian is a Ulysses.
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It is most oppressive to be an aunt.
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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
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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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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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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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If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
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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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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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