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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 12
Died: 1958
Died: September 22
Journalist
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Pittsburg
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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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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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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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There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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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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I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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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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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.
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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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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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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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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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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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