Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining. - Christina Stead

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No man, I suspect, ever lived long in the country without being bitten by these meteorological ambitions. He likes to be hotter and colder, to have been more deeply snowed up, to have more trees and larger blown down than his neighbors.

Christina Stead

Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.

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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 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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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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When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. . . . Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

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Each Australian is a Ulysses.

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