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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
Unless
Beauty
Desire

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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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Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.
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I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
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The more wants a man has, the less freedom.
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Saints rarely have friends they are usually hated and derided, for they love and love is always rejected by hard-hearted men....saints do not advertise themselves good men do not seek out a name in the world....the saints did what they did almost in stealth, asking nothing except that men love God.
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I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
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Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.
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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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Tel Aviv appeals to me.
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I am the skeptic of skeptics.
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. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.
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An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.
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The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.
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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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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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Money? I lost all taste for it.
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I have been the victim of heartless malice.
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People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
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