Kathleen Winsor Quotes

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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.

Kathleen Winsor
Charm... is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.

Kathleen Winsor
But I have always thought the only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

Kathleen Winsor
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.

Kathleen Winsor
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.

Kathleen Winsor
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.

Kathleen Winsor
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

Kathleen Winsor