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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
Pairs
Selfishness
Glasses
Field
Fields
Imagination
Altruism
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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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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.
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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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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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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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If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
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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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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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