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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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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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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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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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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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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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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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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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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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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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Enemies are an indication of character.
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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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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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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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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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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 suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.
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