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There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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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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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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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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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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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 theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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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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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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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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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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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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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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