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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.
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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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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Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
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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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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 calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.
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A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
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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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the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
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Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.
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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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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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having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
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To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.
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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
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