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Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.

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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
Yukon
Angeles
Writers
Crime
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Stories

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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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Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.
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The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?
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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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If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
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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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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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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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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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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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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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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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A woman is a hunter without a forest.
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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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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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A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has a rich widow.
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The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.
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