Kathleen Winsor Quotes

#1. 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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#2. The king appeared ... with his dogs and sycophants behind him.

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#3. I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

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#4. War makes strangers bedfellows ...

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#5. I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

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#6. Death was democratic. It made no choice between the rich and the poor, the beautiful and the ugly, the young and the old.

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#7. It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.

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#8. Success is often harder to take than failure ...

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#9. Edward Progers was his Majesty's Page of the Backstairs. He handled private money transactions, secret correspondence, and served in an ex-officio capacity as the King's pimp. It was a position of no mean prestige, and of considerable activity.

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#10. [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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.

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#15. The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.

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#16. 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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#17. There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.

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#18. Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

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#19. Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

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#20. 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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#21. She had never seen anyone like him before in her life. The clothes he wore, the sound of his voice, the expression in his eys, all made her feel that she had had z moomentary glimpse into another world - and she longed passionately to see it again, if only for a brief while.

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#22. 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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#23. I think I'll name her Amber - for the colour of her father's eyes.

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

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#25. Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.

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#26. Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.

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#27. If you had better sense you'd have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness

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