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A compensation is something which does not quite compensate...

Frances Parkinson Keyes

I have always been allergic to telephones. As far as I am concerned, they are very seldom time-savers and very often the destroyers of schedules.

Frances Parkinson Keyes

One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.

Frances Parkinson Keyes

Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!

Frances Parkinson Keyes

The only door into her bedroom led through the church.

Frances Parkinson Keyes

Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.

Frances Parkinson Keyes

You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to the other people in the process!

Frances Parkinson Keyes

Frances Parkinson Keyes

Frances Parkinson Keyes

Born: July 21, 1885

Died: July 3, 1970 (aged 84)

Bio: Frances Parkinson Keyes was an American author, and a convert to Roman Catholicism, whose works frequently featured Catholic themes and beliefs. Her last name rhymes with "skies," not "keys."

Known for:

Dinner at Antoines (1948)
Joy Street (1950)
Steam-boat Gothic (1952)
Crescent Carnival (1942)
Blue camellia (1957)

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