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The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 12
Died: 1958
Died: September 22
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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.
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[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.
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