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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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Enemies are an indication of character.
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There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
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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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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.
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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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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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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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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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To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.
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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.
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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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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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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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