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Christina Stead (17 July 1902 – 31 March 1983) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterisations. Christina Stead was a committed Marxist, although she was never a member of the Communist Party. She spent much of her life outside Australia, although she returned before her death.

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A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.

Aims, Liars, Real, Success

A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.

Lie, Lying, Political, Race, Whip

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.

Divorce, Friend, Men, Mistress, Promising, Wife

Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.

Intellect, Mother, Nothing, Papa, Trying, Virgin

Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them. They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.

Dawn, Men, Mythomaniacs, Primitive, Primitive Man

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

Altruism, Field, Glasses, Imagination, Selfishness

It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The façade is everything.

Easy, Everything, Hands, Making Money, Sign, Walks

A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.

Conservatism, Future, Speculating, Tory, Youth

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.

Art, Associated, Love, Men, Primitive

Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.

Class, Middle, Opium, Radicalism

It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An abyss would open in the principal shopping street of every town.

Easy, Shopping, Upset, Women, Would Be

Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

Experience, Gentleman, Gentlemen, Men, Overestimated

Philosophy is by the timid for the timid.

Philosophical, Philosophy, Timid

I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.

Father, Like, Marry, Preferred, Shoddy, Wanted

Old age and youth cannot live together.

Age, Old, Together, Youth

The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.

Cities, City, Racism, Washington, White

I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

Compromise, Hate, Life, Life Is, Says

Strange is the influence of Marx on character.

Character, Influence, Marx, Strange

Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.

Interpret, Intuition, May, Message, Messages, Wrongly

Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.

Collections, Law, Nothing, Say, Women, Yeah

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