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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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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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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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To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle in our prime, the wine bottle in our dotage, the pill bottle.
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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.
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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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there is no truly honest autobiography.
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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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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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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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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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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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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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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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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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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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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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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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