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[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

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
Pennsylvania
Mary Rinehart
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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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Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.
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Men play harder than they work women work harder than they play.
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I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
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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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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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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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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 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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[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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there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.
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Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.
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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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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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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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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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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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