Kathleen Winsor Quotes

• Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

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

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  Thinking, Wonderful, Charm

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

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  Hard Work, Genius, Hard

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• Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

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  Matter, Nothing Matters

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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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  Advice, Agents, Publicity

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

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  Joy, Sorrow, Bed

  Kathleen Winsor, Barbara Taylor Bradford (2012). “Forever Amber”, p.105, Chicago Review Press

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

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  Success, Hate, Thinking

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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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  Sex, Two, People

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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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  Knowing, People, Suspects

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

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  Hands, Experience, Firsts

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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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  Writing, People, Paint

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• They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how much time was left. Amber, watching him, was suddenly struck with panic. Now he was going--out again into that great world with its bustle and noise and excitement--and she must stay here. She had a terrible new feeling of loneliness, as if she stood in some solitary corner at a party where she was the only stranger. Those places he had seen, she would never see; those fine things he had done, she would never do. But worst of all she would never see him again.

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  Loneliness, Party, Sky

  Kathleen Winsor (2000). “Forever Amber”, p.44, Chicago Review Press

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

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  Amusement, Adultery, Crime

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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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  Ideas, Trying, Pennies

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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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  Wire, Relief, Ends

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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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  Two, Way, Cheat

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• Success is often harder to take than failure.

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  Success, Success Failure, Harder

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• War makes strangers bedfellows.

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  War, Stranger, Bedfellows

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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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  Change, Past, Years

  Kathleen Winsor, Barbara Taylor Bradford (2012). “Forever Amber”, p.19, Chicago Review Press

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

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  Half, Alive, Moments

  Kathleen Winsor, Barbara Taylor Bradford (2012). “Forever Amber”, p.46, Chicago Review Press

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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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  Tired, Beer, Night

  Kathleen Winsor (2000). “Forever Amber”, p.654, Chicago Review Press

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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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  Wickedness, Thrive, Wells

  Kathleen Winsor (2000). “Forever Amber”, p.471, Chicago Review Press

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