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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.
Christina Stead
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Christina Stead
Age: 80 †
Born: 1902
Born: July 17
Died: 1983
Died: March 31
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To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.
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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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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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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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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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Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
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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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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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If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.
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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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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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If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
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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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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
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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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