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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.
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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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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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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If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.
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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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The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.
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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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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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Intuition is not infallible it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.
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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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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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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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All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.
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Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.
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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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