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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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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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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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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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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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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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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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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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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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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 something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
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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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[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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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child.
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It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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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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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.
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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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