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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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
Pennsylvania
Mary Rinehart
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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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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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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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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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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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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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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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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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The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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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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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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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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Death was a beginning and not an end it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested the first fruits of them that slept.
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