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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
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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.
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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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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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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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It is only in his head that man is heroic in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
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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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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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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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the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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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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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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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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