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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
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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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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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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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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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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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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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All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
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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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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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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is growing up, and I certainly licked the hide off her and she's seen marriage at its worst, and now she's dreaming about 'supermen' and 'great men'. What is the good of doing anything for them?
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Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
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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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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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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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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 tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
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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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