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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
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Rockdale City
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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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A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.
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Pukka sahib or rank outsider--gentleman or bounder--and it's accent, accent, all the way.
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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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All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
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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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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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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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Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.
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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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Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual--masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
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Men never believe a woman can do anything.
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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 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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It is most oppressive to be an aunt.
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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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