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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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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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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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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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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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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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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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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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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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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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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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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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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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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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[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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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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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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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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