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Intuition is not infallible it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.

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
Seems
May
Wrongly
Infallible
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Intuition
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Truth

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The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
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