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Taylor Caldwell
American
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About the author
Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Time
#Life
#End
#Humanity
#Gods
I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Animals
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Medicine
#Medical
I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Thought
I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Life
I have been the victim of heartless malice.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Malice
Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Giving
I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Life
I have anonymously helped many thousands.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Poverty
#Horror
I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
I converse with my dog through ESP.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
I am the skeptic of skeptics.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#World
#Happiness
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Work
#Education
#Goal
I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Soul
The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Soul
I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Money
#Determination
My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Being
#Writer
#Relatives
No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Men
#Woman
#Genius
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Fire
#Ambition
#Obscurity
One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#People
#Death
#Dying
My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Life
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Rome
#Arrogance
My dreams are all follies.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Dreams
The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Will
#Race
#Soul
The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Idea
#Memory
#Eternity
#Atheism
The world is a penal institution.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#World
Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Fools
#Silly
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Death
#Survival
#Personality
Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Women
Tel Aviv appeals to me.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
I am a Westerner of Westerners!
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#World
I will ge glad to have done with this life forever.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Life
#Will
I will know him by his eyes.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Will
#Eyes
I'm not that interested in people.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#People
I've always enjoyed poor health.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Poor
#Health
My literary success meant nothing to me.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Success
#Nothing
#Literary
If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#God
I often reread books I have written.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Books
In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Being
#Living
#Sleep
#Fortune
It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Money
#Help
#Desire
#Waste
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Nature
#Human nature
#Obscurity
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Life
#Learning
#Joy
#Adventure
#Excitement
Money? I lost all taste for it.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Money
#Taste
My childhood was appalling.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Childhood
If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Memory
At 8, I made a pact with God.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#God
Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author
#Character
#Lies
Are we not all desperate one way or another?
Taylor Caldwell,
American
Author