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the tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday.

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Gladys Taber
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: April 12
Died: 1980
Died: March 11
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Colorado Springs
Colorado
Gladys Bagg Taber
Tentacles
Octopus
Swallow
Yesterday
Reach
Past
Today
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Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.
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My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.
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After all, catching something is purely a by-product of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves fear and anxiety.
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If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.
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Happiness is a thing of now.
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The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.
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We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.
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