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the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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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To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle in our prime, the wine bottle in our dotage, the pill bottle.
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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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I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
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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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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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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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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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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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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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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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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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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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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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