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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.
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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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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Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
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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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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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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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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child.
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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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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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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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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
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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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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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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.
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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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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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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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