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All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.

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
Made
Dispossession
Shifting
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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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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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Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.
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Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.
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Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
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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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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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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
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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 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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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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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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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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