Christina Stead - Money Quotes

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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.

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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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If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go round.

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Why, if all the rich men in the world divided up their money amongst themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go round.

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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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A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.

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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.

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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.

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You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.

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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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