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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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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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The Chinese are a knowing people and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.
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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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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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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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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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A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is growing up, and I certainly licked the hide off her and she's seen marriage at its worst, and now she's dreaming about 'supermen' and 'great men'. What is the good of doing anything for them?
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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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A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.
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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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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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A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
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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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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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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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The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
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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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