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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 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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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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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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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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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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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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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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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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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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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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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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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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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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