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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.
Christina Stead
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Christina Stead
Age: 80 †
Born: 1902
Born: July 17
Died: 1983
Died: March 31
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Rockdale City
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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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I do not want to go to heaven I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good happy wife, that is all I ask, but not paradise earth is good enough for me: it is because I believe earth is heaven, Naden, that I can overcome all my troubles and face down my enemies.
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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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All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
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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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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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The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
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Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
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The more we know, the better our intuitions.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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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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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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