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Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that.

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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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Money is a jealous mistress If you want money you must want only money.... I must tell you the one secret of life, there is only one: everything is a jealous mistress, everything is terribly possessive, and, by God, we want to be terribly possessed if we want to get somewhere — and we want to be terribly possessed — anyhow; or what is life?

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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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Christina Stead

Christina Stead

Born: July 17, 1902
Died: March 31, 1983 (aged 80)
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