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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
Journalist
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Pittsburg
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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle in our prime, the wine bottle in our dotage, the pill bottle.
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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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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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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.
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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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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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There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
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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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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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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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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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