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Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.

Christina Stead

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Christina Stead
Age: 80 †
Born: 1902
Born: July 17
Died: 1983
Died: March 31
Novelist
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Short Story Writer
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Rockdale City
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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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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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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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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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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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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 woman is a hunter without a forest.
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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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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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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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Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.
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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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A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
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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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Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
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No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.
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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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