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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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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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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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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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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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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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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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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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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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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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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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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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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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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