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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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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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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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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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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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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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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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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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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 have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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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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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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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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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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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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