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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

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
Translator
Writer
Rockdale City
Glasses
Field
Fields
Imagination
Altruism
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Pairs
Selfishness

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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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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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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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Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
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A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
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To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.
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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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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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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 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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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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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
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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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It is most oppressive to be an aunt.
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A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.
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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 dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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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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