"Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors."

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Source : Taylor Caldwell (2016). “Captains and the Kings: A Novel”, p.303, Open Road Media

Taylor Caldwell

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“I have been on shop floors. I have talked to a lot of the companies that create jobs in South Carolina and across the country. And what they want is less regulation.”
“There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important. Mystery is important. You fall in love with somebody who's somewhat mysterious, in part because mystery elevates dopamine in the brain, probably pushes you over that threshold to fall in love.”
“Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.”
“The reason I know what we are to each other is because we fight freely and almost constantly, about even the smallest thing. In fact, once we didn't speak for an entire week because he didn't like the way I loaded his dishwasher...I can't decide if we're exact opposites, or somehow exactly the same except for minor cosmetic differences. I do know that all of his friends hate me and all of my friends hate him. We drive each other crazy in ways that nobody else can even touch. We never bore each other. And we both realize what a rare thing this is.”
“I can't dance and I can't sing too well,”
“How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!”

Source : Richard Le Gallienne (1925). “Prose Fancies”
“Those in power write the history while those who suffer write the songs.”
“The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.”

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