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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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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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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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[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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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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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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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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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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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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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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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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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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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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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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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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