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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
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Mary Rinehart
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Life
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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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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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There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
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What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.
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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 fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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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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there is no truly honest autobiography.
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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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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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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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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
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Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
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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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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
