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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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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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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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Enemies are an indication of character.
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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.
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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
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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!
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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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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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Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!
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there is no truly honest autobiography.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
