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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
Novelist
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Mary Rinehart
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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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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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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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there is no truly honest autobiography.
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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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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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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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There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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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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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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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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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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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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there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.
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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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