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This world’s brought me very little joy, very little satisfaction.
The Captains, the Kings, and Taylor Caldwell (1978)
The world is a terrible place, but it’s very interesting.
The Captains, the Kings, and Taylor Caldwell (1978)
Writing — I exist only for that. It’s the most important thing in my life.
The Captains, the Kings, and Taylor Caldwell (1978)
Learning … should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of noble and learned men, not a conducted tour through a jail. So its surroundings should be as gracious as possible, to complement it.
The Sound of Thunder (1957)
„…there will be no peace in the tormented world, only a programmed and systematic series of wars and calamities—until the plotters have gained their objective: an exhausted world willing to submit to a planned Marxist economy and total and meek enslavement— in the name of peace.”
To eliminate sex from a book is to eliminate the great creative force in the world. Out of the sexual instinct rises all the art, you know. … No eunuch ever wrote a book.
The Captains, the Kings, and Taylor Caldwell (1978)
You’ve got to look at life clearly. No rose-colored glasses. The human race is not very admirable. It was a big mistake of God’s . . . The more I see of people, the more bitter I become.
The Captains, the Kings, and Taylor Caldwell (1978)
I don’t know how I’ve survived the onslaughts of the government. It almost makes me believe in the Deity. I’m a Catholic, but I’m a Catholic-atheist, because the tragedies in life have overwhelmed me.
The Captains, the Kings, and Taylor Caldwell (1978)
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