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We are not old unless we desire to be.

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Taylor Caldwell
Age: 84 †
Born: 1900
Born: September 7
Died: 1985
Died: August 30
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
Marcus Holland
Max Reiner
Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell
Janet Miriam Reback
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Money? I lost all taste for it.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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'He is very ugly,' said his mother.
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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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Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.
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I shudder at the very thought of being born again into this world. Life to me . . . has been a monstrous, painful, agonizing affair, and the idea of repeating such an existence - even if better in a way - is horrifying to me. . . . I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.
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I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
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