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

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The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
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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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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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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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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 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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Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.
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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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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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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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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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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 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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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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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 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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