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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.

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
Money
Ground
Kick
Country
Vote
Kicks
Mind
Broken
Join
Make
Break
Club
Neighbours
Good
Free
Acknowledge
Ladder
Men
Success
Clubs
Ladders
Time
Fear
Teeth
Votes
Speak
Ambition
Neighbour

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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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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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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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A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
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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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Intuition is not infallible it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.
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A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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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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It is most oppressive to be an aunt.
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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
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Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
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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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Each Australian is a Ulysses.
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A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is growing up, and I certainly licked the hide off her and she's seen marriage at its worst, and now she's dreaming about 'supermen' and 'great men'. What is the good of doing anything for them?
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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 great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
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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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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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