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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.
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 have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
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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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McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.
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The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.
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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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All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.
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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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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
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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 nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
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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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When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
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A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
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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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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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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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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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