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Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
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
Angeles
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Crime
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Stories
Yukon
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The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
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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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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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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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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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I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!
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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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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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I know your breed all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.
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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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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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Each Australian is a Ulysses.
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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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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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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 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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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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