Frances Parkinson Keyes quotes
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“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 KeyesSource : Frances Parkinson Keyes (1968). “Dinner at Antoine's”
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“... a compensation is something which does not quite compensate ...”
-- Frances Parkinson KeyesSource : Frances Parkinson Keyes (1968). “Dinner at Antoine's”
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“Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.”
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“the only door into her bedroom led through the church.”
-- Frances Parkinson KeyesSource : Frances Parkinson Keyes (1968). “Dinner at Antoine's”
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“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 KeyesSource : Frances Parkinson Keyes (1972). “All flags flying: reminiscences of Frances Parkinson Keyes”, McGraw-Hill Companies
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“A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.”
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“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 KeyesSource : Frances Parkinson Keyes (1972). “All flags flying: reminiscences of Frances Parkinson Keyes”, McGraw-Hill Companies
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“scales are the grammar of music.”
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“One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.”
-- Frances Parkinson KeyesSource : Frances Parkinson Keyes (1968). “Dinner at Antoine's”
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“Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.”
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“A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.”
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“The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.”
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“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
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