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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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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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War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.
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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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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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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 is no truly honest autobiography.
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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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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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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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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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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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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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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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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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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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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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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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