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

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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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Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.
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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
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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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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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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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All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
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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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A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.
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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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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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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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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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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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The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
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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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