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When we are born, we are studied, and deviations, if noxious to the species, are suppressed; good deviations are preserved. And furthermore, we bear our formula on our arm band!
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Each Australian is a Ulysses.
Christina Stead
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Sam,' said Saul fervently, 'when you talk, you know you create a world.
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Where, in all the self-righteous lying world, could she turn for a friend? She even thought angrily of her children - they were simply eating up her flesh as they had when they were at the breast, no less.
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Good digestion is for the bovine.
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Don’t call humans rats - rats are superior.
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The children hid themselves, with receptive ears, round corners.
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It's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.
Christina Stead
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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 saw my entire life a waste, a desert of shame and unspeakable sorrow, and behind me, a suicided wife!
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She is never more herself than when she destroys herself.
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What a dreary stodgy world of adults the children saw when they went out!
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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 love you, I love men and women, I love little children and all innocent things, I love, I feel I am love itself - how could I pick out a woman who would hate me so much!
Christina Stead
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"Nothing hurts me if I don’t want it to,” she told him.
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Men are always good to fools and perfect idiots,” cried Henny impatiently. “A man will run ten miles from a woman with sense.
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Tolstoy said that “each unhappy family is unhappy in a way of its own
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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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Our old age is perhaps life’s decision about us - or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.
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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.
Christina Stead
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She knows that soon she will have escaped into the world of the people better than us, the great objective world better than Shakespeare and Beethoven and Donatello put together—didn’t they all come out of it?
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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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I’m an old woman, your mother’s an old woman, so I’ll be an old woman, and I’ll do what I please.
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He talks about human equality, the rights of man, nothing but that. How about the rights of woman, I’d like to scream at him. It’s fine to be a great democrat when you’ve a slave to rub your boots on.
Christina Stead