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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 12
Died: 1958
Died: September 22
Journalist
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Pittsburg
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Mary Rinehart
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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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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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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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It is only in his head that man is heroic in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
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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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[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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To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle in our prime, the wine bottle in our dotage, the pill bottle.
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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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there is no truly honest autobiography.
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What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.
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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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There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!
Mary Roberts Rinehart
A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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