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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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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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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
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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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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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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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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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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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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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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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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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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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To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle in our prime, the wine bottle in our dotage, the pill bottle.
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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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[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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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 no truly honest autobiography.
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There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
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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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