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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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[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 calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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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 is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!
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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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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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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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I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
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