Faith Baldwin Quotes

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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Faith Baldwin
Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.

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Sometimes there is greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

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In my belief, a harvest is also a legacy, for very often what you reap is, in the way of small miracles, more than you consciously know you have sown.

Faith Baldwin
Shakespeare is usually apt... but not always quotable in mixed company.

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'When I was your age —.' 'No one,' said Viki, 'is ever anyone else's age, except physically.'

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I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.

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There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.

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Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

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She hated being asked what's the matter. Most women hate it, whether anything's the matter or not.

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She would not measure living by the many who had less but always by the few who had more than she had.

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Little men were busy bowling in or with their respective skulls and other little men, in cowboy boots with spurs, were jumping up and down inside their stomachs.

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You could get to the bottom of her mind in one dive. And rarely, if ever, come up with a pearl.

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Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.

Faith Baldwin