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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.
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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It is only in his head that man is heroic in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
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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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as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
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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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there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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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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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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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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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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[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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It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.
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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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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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