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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
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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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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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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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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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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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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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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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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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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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