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The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
Christina Stead
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Christina Stead
Age: 80 †
Born: 1902
Born: July 17
Died: 1983
Died: March 31
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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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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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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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It is most oppressive to be an aunt.
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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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