"It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you."

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Source : "Honoria". Essay by Taylor Caldwell (1957), republished in "The New American", Volume 19, No. 20, October 6, 2003.

Taylor Caldwell

#Long Quotes #World Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.”

Source : Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Table Money: A Novel”, p.204, Open Road Media
“It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.”
“You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand”
“I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.”

Source : Romain Gary (1987). “Promise at Dawn”, p.19, New Directions Publishing
“The quality of the human that precludes identifying the individual with the class is 'metaphysical' and has no place in empiricist epistemology. The pigeon hole into which a man is shoved circumscribes his fate.”

Source : "Eclipse of Reason" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 23), 1947.
“There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.”
“[On Philadelphia society:] The parties remind me of the Gay Nineties -- the men are gay and the women are in their nineties.”
“I moved to cricket at a time when I was at the peak of my career, and I can guarantee you that no one else from Bollywood would have done that.”

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