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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 12
Died: 1958
Died: September 22
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the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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 something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
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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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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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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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there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.
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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 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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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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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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