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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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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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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All of life is a foreign country.
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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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I don't want to live on past records.
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If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.
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Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and only arise from a definite spiritual conviction. Any violence which does not spring from a firm, spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain.
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In those days, in Far Rockaway, there was a youth center for Jewish kids at the temple.... Somebody nominated me for president of the youth center. The elders began getting nervous, because I was an avowed atheist by that time.... I thought nature itself was so interesting that I didn't want it distorted like that. And so I gradually came to disbelieve the whole religion.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
