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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
Yearns
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Money

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Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable, would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my old cough every winter? I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great-I-Am.
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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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Each Australian is a Ulysses.
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To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.
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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
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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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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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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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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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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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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 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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A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
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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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The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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