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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
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Writer
Rockdale City
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Money

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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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Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.
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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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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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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
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A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
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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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To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.
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I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!
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We are primitive men we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.
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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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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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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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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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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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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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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 waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.
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