"A speculator is a man who, if he……" — Christina Stead
"A speculator is a man who, if he dies at the right time, has arich widow."
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19 Quotes by Christina Stead
Christina Stead has 19 quotes on this site.
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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…
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She was able to feel active creation going on around her in the rocks and hills, where the mystery of…
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We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be…
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Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
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Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.
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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…
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A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor…
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The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends…
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Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic
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A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different…
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Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.
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About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.
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More Dies Quotes
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries…
— Jane Austen
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And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
— Dan Aykroyd
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
— Abu Bakr
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Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
— Dave Barry
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Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
— Milton Berle
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All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are…
— Annie Besant
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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
— Theodor Adorno
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A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up…
— Jim Bishop
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Love dies only when growth stops.
— Pearl S. Buck
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