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To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.
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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To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle in our prime, the wine bottle in our dotage, the pill bottle.
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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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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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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 no truly honest autobiography.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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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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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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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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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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I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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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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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
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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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The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
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