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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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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 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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it that others, like myself, will compromise and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.
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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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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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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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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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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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the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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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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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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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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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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