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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
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Rockdale City
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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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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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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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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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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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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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If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
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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 tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
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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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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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