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The more we know, the better our intuitions.

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
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Rockdale City
Intuitions
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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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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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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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Each Australian is a Ulysses.
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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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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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A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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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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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
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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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I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!
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There'll be no sense in sexual theories until women start telling their minds and, of course, until they have some.
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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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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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A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.
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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.
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