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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.
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 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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the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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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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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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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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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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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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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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