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Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.
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Charm... is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.
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But I have always thought the only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.
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The end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions — and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.
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Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.
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There are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it.
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I've got a penny-ante talent, out of which I try to drum up a living for myself. And what nobody seems to realize is that it's just as difficult to get a bad idea as a good one.
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She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool golden ale she swallowed from a pewter tankard. She slept deeply that night and longer than she had intended...
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There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.
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I only met him by accident. No, I don't know why I said that. I guess you meet everyone by accident.
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I think Americans love success — but hate the people who have it.
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Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.
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[Sex] is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people — and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once.
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Maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway — excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.
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I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.
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Don't miss me, for the love of God. If you miss me I'll still feel bound, I'll still feel guilty, I'll still feel tied to you.
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There are two kinds of people in the world: those who have to please others, and those who have to please themselves.
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It took no sharp eye to see at a glance that the Londoner was a different breed from the country Englishman. He was arrogant with the knowledge of his power, for he was the kingdom and he knew it.
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There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity — weigh it.
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If you had better sense you'd have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
Kathleen Winsor
Born:
October 16, 1919
Died:
May 26, 2003
(aged 83)
Bio:
Kathleen Winsor was an American author. She is best known for her first work, the 1944 romantic novel Forever Amber.
Known for:
Forever Amber (1944)
Por Siempre Ambar (1968)
Wanderers Eastward, Wanderers West (1965)
Robert and Arabella (1986)
Star money (1950)
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