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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.
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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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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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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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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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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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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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.
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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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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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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.
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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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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 that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
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