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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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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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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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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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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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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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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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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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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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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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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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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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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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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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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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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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