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Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.
Taylor Caldwell
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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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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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One, if one is sensible, blames government, not the servers of government, not those entangled in their governments.
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People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
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Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded.
Taylor Caldwell
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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If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the armies, cannot shake its foundations no, not even if the whole world is arrayed against it.
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People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
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We are not old unless we desire to be.
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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 never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
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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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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?
Taylor Caldwell
I am the skeptic of skeptics.
Taylor Caldwell
I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.
Taylor Caldwell
At 8, I made a pact with God.
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My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
Taylor Caldwell
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls
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. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.
Taylor Caldwell
