Taylor Caldwell Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.”
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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 am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.”
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“I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.”
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“It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.”
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“Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.”
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“I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.”
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“Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.”
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“Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.”
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“An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.”
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“We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world”
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“The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.”
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“The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific”
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“I have anonymously helped many thousands”
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“My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.”
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“I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world”
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“No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me”
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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 there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me”
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“There is no solid satisfaction in any career for a woman like myself. There is no home, no true freedom, no hope, no joy, no expectation for tomorrow, no contentment. I would rather cook a meal for a man and bring him his slippers and feel myself in the protection of his arms than have all the citations and awards and honors I have received worldwide, including the Ribbon of Legion of Honor and my property and my bank accounts. They mean nothing to me. And I am only one among the millions of sad women like myself.”
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“But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.”
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“Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.”
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“God's 'failures' are really man's failures ...”
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“Animals do not betray; they do not exploit; they do not oppress; they do not enslave; they do not sin. They have their being, and their being is honest, and who can say this of man?”
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