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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
Journalist
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Pittsburg
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Mary Rinehart
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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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Useless as a pulled tooth.
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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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