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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
Novelist
Nurse
Poet
Screenwriter
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Mary Rinehart
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Conflict

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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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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
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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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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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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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I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it that others, like myself, will compromise and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.
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Enemies are an indication of character.
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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.
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I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.
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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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