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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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 suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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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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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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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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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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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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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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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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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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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.
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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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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.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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