Taylor Caldwell Quotes
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I'm not that interested in people.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
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My childhood was appalling.
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At 8, I made a pact with God.
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I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
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My dreams are all follies.
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Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
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I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.
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If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.
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It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.
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Tel Aviv appeals to me.
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Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
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I have anonymously helped many thousands.
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If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
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The world is a penal institution.
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The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
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I was talking to a woman last night. I said, 'I’m not like other people.' She started to giggle. Then I raised my voice and said evenly, 'That’s one blessing God gave writers - they’re not like other people!'
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People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
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My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.