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A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.

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
Conservatism
Youth
Future
Speculating
Tory

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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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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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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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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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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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Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.
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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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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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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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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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I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!
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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 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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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 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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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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