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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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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 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 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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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
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It is most oppressive to be an aunt.
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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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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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Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
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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 tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
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If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.
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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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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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Each Australian is a Ulysses.
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A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
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