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Frances Parkinson Keyes

Frances Parkinson Keyes Biography

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Frances Parkinson Keyes was an American author renowned for her romantic novels and short stories. Born on July 21, 1885, she spent much of her life in New York and New England. Keyes' writing career spanned several decades, and she published over 50 books, including popular romance novels and works of historical fiction. She passed away on July 3, 1970.

Frances Parkinson Keyes was an American author renowned for her romantic novels and short stories. Born on July 21, 1885, she spent much of her life in New York and New England. Keyes' writing career spanned several decades, and she published over 50 books, including popular romance novels and works of historical fiction. She passed away on July 3, 1970.

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“Washington is certainly not a city of restaurants, any more than it is a city of theaters. It is a city of official cocktail parties and excellent home-cooked dinners with wonderful conversation afterward and that provides all the entertaining anyone needs. It's also a city of whispering, maneuvering, tattling, declaiming - a city that's still having growing pains, that naive in spite of its imagined sophistication, that's beautiful in the same way an adolescent is beautiful, though he insists on pretending to a maturity and a mellowness that he hasn't achieved.”

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“Afterwards, he gave me a diamond wristwatch, so that I'd never be late to the theatre, and for Christmas, a ruby brooch. (The rubies came from Aristan, too - they must throw precious stones around like pebbles in that country.)”

Gifts Jewellery Being Romanced

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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!”

People Knows Feels Matter Happens Process Know How No Matter What Busybodies

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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.”

Kind Challenges Acceptance Setback Inferiority

Author:Frances Parkinson Keyes

“One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.”

Doe Trouble Friends Permit Times Of Trouble

Book:Dinner at Antoine's

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“scales are the grammar of music.”

Music Scales Grammar

Author:Frances Parkinson Keyes

“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.”

Ifs Way Heart Seems Desire Opportunity Fame Fortune Highways Footpaths

Book:All flags flying: reminiscences of Frances Parkinson Keyes

Source: All flags flying: reminiscences of Frances Parkinson Keyes

“A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.”

Persons Matter Spiritual Spirituality Invisible Mystic Realist

Author:Frances Parkinson Keyes

“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.”

Concerned Schedules Telephones Destroyers Allergic

Book:All flags flying: reminiscences of Frances Parkinson Keyes

Source: All flags flying: reminiscences of Frances Parkinson Keyes

“the only door into her bedroom led through the church.”

Church Doors Bedroom Virginity

Book:Dinner at Antoine's

Source: Dinner at Antoine's

“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.”

Men Wells Littles Mother Turns Levels Known He Man Grew Grew Up Recalls

Author:Frances Parkinson Keyes

“A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.”

Doe Compensation

Book:Dinner at Antoine's

Source: Dinner at Antoine's

“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!”

Looks Lying Claims Medicine Folks Wit Advertising Packs Advertisements Patents

Author:Frances Parkinson Keyes

“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.”

Firsts Wind Assuming Storm Driven Snow Fallen Proportion Wicked Blizzard Windowpane

Author:Frances Parkinson Keyes

“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.”

Should Persons Faces Deals Half Century Aging Folds Wrinkles Chins Unwelcome

Author:Frances Parkinson Keyes

About the Author

Born: July 21, 1885
Died: July 3, 1970
Known for: Author
Quotes: 15

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