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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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Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child.
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I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it that others, like myself, will compromise and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.
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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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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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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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