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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.

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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Writer
Rockdale City
Men
Finance
World
Primitive
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Financiers
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Jungle
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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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A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.
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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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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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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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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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Intuition is not infallible it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.
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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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If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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A tory youth is a youth speculating on his 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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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.
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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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Each Australian is a Ulysses.
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