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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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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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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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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.
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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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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
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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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The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.
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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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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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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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To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle in our prime, the wine bottle in our dotage, the pill bottle.
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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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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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