Kathleen Winsor
Kathleen Winsor
Kathleen Winsorwas an American author. She is best known for her first work, the 1944 romantic novel Forever Amber. The novel, racy for its time, became a runaway bestseller even as it drew criticism from some authorities for its depictions of sexuality. She wrote seven other novels, none of which matched the success of her debut...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth16 October 1919
CountryUnited States of America
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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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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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I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.
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Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.
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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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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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It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.
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The king appeared... with his dogs and sycophants behind him.