Gloria Naylor: "You can live without anything you weren't born..."

About Gloria Naylor

Gloria Naylor (January 25, 1950 – September 28, 2016) was an American novelist, known for novels including The Women of Brewster Place (1982), Linden Hills (1985) and Mama Day (1988).

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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go… And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

—Gloria Naylor

In a contest between new technology and old ways of life, it is the traditional rhythms that will hold. Traditional societies make up more than two-thirds of the world, the two-thirds that will not be going online to "save" time but will remain wedded to the knowledge that if the bus doesn't come that day, it will come someday. After all, there is nothing but time.

—Gloria Naylor

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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

—George Bernard Shaw

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To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.

—Wilson Mizner

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Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

—Sam Levenson

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We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

—Judith Martin

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When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

—Gracie Allen

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You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

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