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there is no truly honest autobiography.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 12
Died: 1958
Died: September 22
Journalist
Novelist
Nurse
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Mary Rinehart
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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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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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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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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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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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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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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
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Death was a beginning and not an end it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested the first fruits of them that slept.
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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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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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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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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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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 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 nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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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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the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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