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Conflict is the very essence of life.
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
Pennsylvania
Mary Rinehart
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Life
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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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[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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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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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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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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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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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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[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
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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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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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the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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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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It is only in his head that man is heroic in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
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Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
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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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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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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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