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I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!

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
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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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To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.
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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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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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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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A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
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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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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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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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Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.
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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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A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.
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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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Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
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The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
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