Taylor Caldwell Quotes
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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It's a comforting thought to know that I've got my partner by my side walking through life and all the ups and the downs. I know we can handle it. There's nothing too big or too crazy that's going to tear us apart.
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I'd love to make a thriller.
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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
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I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.
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I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.
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The idea that Donald Trump is a conservative is a complete farce. He is a conman who pretends to be a conservative.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
