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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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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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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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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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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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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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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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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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To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle in our prime, the wine bottle in our dotage, the pill bottle.
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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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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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as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
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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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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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